[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

Let me begin by saying that I have only just been informed that there is
some connection between Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> and SEACOM.  My apologies
to him.  If I had known of that connection, I might have raised the
issus of the Ugandan bogons with him privately.  But since this is
now a matter of public discussion, I will respond publicly.

In message <CAEqgTWYkmfxtk--OcCxaX32gRcp_DeOQzB8SDAM5jtdDHEsbXA at mail.gmail.com>
Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

>Actually those prefixes on the link above are being originated by
>ITC AS26754 and announced by two different upstream providers.

That is 100% correct.  So SEACOM is certainly -not- the only network
that is doing something wrong here.

The real problem is that *nobody* should be peering with AS26754 which
is a bogon ASN that was previously registered (or stolen) by Ernest
Byaruhanga.  Quite obviously, AFRINIC staff already realized that some
time ago and they then appropriately de-registered AS26754 and returned
that AS number to the free pool.  Thus, AS26754 has been a "bogon" ASN
for some time now.

So the question must be asked:  Why is AS37100 (or anybody else) still
peering with the bogon AS26754?

That should not be happening.


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  I am greatly looking forward to more widespread adoption of RPKI
which may reduce some of these kinds of problems.