Hi Geroge, Thanks for fixing this so promptly and I along with my ex-colleagues from Multinet would be really interested to know that how that happened.
On Thu, 31 May 2018 at 21:31 George Kuo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Anurag, > > Many thanks for pointing out the inconsistency. The "IN" in the ftp file > is an error and it is being corrected. We will soon run a consistency check > and investigate the cause of the error. > > I can confirm that 202.141.224.0/19 is allocated to PK as indicated by > the Whois record. > > Once again, thank you for your question. My sincere apologies for the > confusion caused. > > > George Kuo > APNIC > > > > > > *From: *<[email protected]> on behalf of Anurag Bhatia < > [email protected]> > *Date: *Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 6:19 pm > *To: *mailman_APNIC-talk <[email protected]> > *Subject: *[apnic-talk] APNIC's allocation to Multinet Pakistan > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I am trying to understand a case scenario where a Pakistan based ISP > (Multinet Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.) AS9260 is being allocated and > originating certain addresses which are officially delegated to Indian > operator (though whois record reflects Pakistan). > > > > > > Example pool which shows this behaviour: > > > > 202.141.224.0/19 (visible in routing table, originated by AS9260) > > Here, whois query to APNIC DB reflects: > > > > % [whois.apnic.net] > > % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html > > > > % Information related to '202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255' > > > > % Abuse contact for '202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255' is ' > [email protected]' > > > > inetnum: 202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255 > > netname: MULTINETPAKISTAN > > descr: Multinet Pakistan Pvt. Ltd. > > country: PK > > org: ORG-MB4-AP > > admin-c: AAA3-AP > > tech-c: IC219-AP > > mnt-by: APNIC-HM > > mnt-routes: MAINT-PK-MULTINETPAKISTAN > > mnt-lower: MAINT-PK-MULTINETPAKISTAN > > mnt-irt: IRT-MULTINETBROADBAND-PK > > status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE > > last-modified: 2017-11-13T13:01:16Z > > source: APNIC > > > > > > > > Seems like a regular allocation to this network. But if we look at the > APNIC's delegation data ( > https://ftp.apnic.net/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-extended-latest), it > shows: > > > > grep "202.141.224.0" delegated-apnic-extended-latest > > apnic|IN|ipv4|202.141.224.0|8192|20020419|allocated|A91733A8 > > > > > > > > Here the allocated country is India. Is this is a case of IP address > transfer? Or a case where APNIC might have allocated it to an Indian > network back in 2002 and later pool was returned and allocated to this > network in Pakistan? Many tools which try to map prefixes to the country > based on the RIR data will map/assume this prefix to be belonging to India > which certainly not seem to be the case here. > > > > Anyone with insight on this? > > > > -- > > > > > > Anurag Bhatia > > anuragbhatia.com > _______________________________________________ > apnic-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apnic-talk
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