[130767] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS22558 - Routing apparently hijacked space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Wed Oct 13 13:21:53 2010
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:19:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org, rfg@tristatelogic.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Tue Oct 12 04:00:19 2010
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: AS22558 - Routing apparently hijacked space
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:01:32 -0700
> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
>
>
> I can't take credit for finding this one. Somebody else on another
> mailing list I'm on actually found it.
>
> AS22558 itself _does not_ appear to be hijacked. Rather this is
> a relatively new (2009) AS, but the AS itself is very odd indeed.
>
> It's contact phone number isn't working, it apparently has no web site
> associated with its domain name (mpgnetworks.com) and although the whois
> record clearly indicates that the company behind this AS is located in
> California, the California Secretary of State's web site has no record
> of any "MPG Networks, LLC" operating legally within California.
The whois record is also suspect. A little bird tells me tht there is
is no 'suite 411' at 707 Wilshire.
> =====================================================================
> ASNumber: 22558
> ASName: MPGNET
> ASHandle: AS22558
> RegDate: 2010-01-27
> Updated: 2010-01-27
> Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/asn/AS22558
>
> OrgName: MPG Networks, LLC
> OrgId: MPGNE
> Address: 707 Wilshire, suite 411
> City: Los Angeles
> StateProv: CA
> PostalCode: 90017
> Country: US
> RegDate: 2009-11-03
> Updated: 2009-11-03
