I was wondering why a non-allocated AS was being allowed to announce the blocks but it appears that APNIC has revoked the 63854 ASN?
http://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl?searchtext=AS63854&object_type=aut-num Based on google's cache, it was still there late March. BGP routing table entry for 103.41.125.0/24, version 108425142 Paths: (1 available, best #1, table default) Not advertised to any peer 6939 4134 36678 26484 63854 Blake Hudson wrote: > > Reading the article, I assumed that perhaps Level 3 was an upstream > carrier, but RIPE stats shows that the covering prefix > (103.41.120.0/22) is announced by AS63509, an Indonesian organization. > It looks like they're fighting back by announcing their own /24 now. > > I love the AS's address: > descr:Jl. Marcedes Bens No.258 > descr:Gunung Putri, Bogor > descr:Jawa Barat 16964 > country:ID > > While a Level 3 /24 announcement will certainly have a world wide > impact, I agree that it seems misguided when the originating AS can > announce their own /24. It does make one wonder why Cisco or Level 3 > is involved, why they feel they have the authority to hijack someone > else's IP space, and why they didn't go through law enforcement. This > is especially true for the second netblock (43.255.190.0/23), > announced by a US company (AS26484). > > --Blake
