[138324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ranges announced by Level3 without permitions.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Mar 3 09:39:08 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D6FA6E3.40602@alfatelecom.cz>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:39:03 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 3, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Alfa Telecom wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 03:25 PM, Brandon Ross wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Alfa Telecom wrote:
>>=20
>>> Both ranges are from RIPE region and couldn't be announced from ARIN =
ASN at all.
>>=20
>> Your premise is incorrect. Any block from any RIR can be announced =
by any ASN.
> 1) All routing data must be present at the RIPE DB. If you work with =
RIPE DB you could see that webtools don't allow you to create route to =
ASN not from RIPE region.
> 2) RIPE IP Usage policy don't allow to route RIPE IPs from non-RIPE =
region.
You are confused.
>>> We're sponsored LIR for both companies, I sent several emails to =
Level3 noc, made several calls but they still announce these ranges.
>>=20
>> Why should they stop announcing them? Do you believe they have been =
hijacked? If these companies have decided to contract with another =
transit provider, you cannot stop them from doing so in this way.
>>=20
> IPs are announced by Level3... I respect this company but looks like =
Level3 is scammed and currently announce without necessary permissions.
You will need more than a baseless accusation to make others change. =
Especially after you have shown ignorance of some basic facts on how =
networks announce & accept prefixes.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
