Hey NANOG,


After receiving a BGPAlerter notification that one of our subnets 
(23.150.164.0/24) had been hijacked, I checked and noticed the prefix in 
question was missing RPKI. Assuming I had fat fingered something and butchered 
the ROA, I logged into ARIN and found that the prefix was missing from our 
resource list entirely, and had been reallocated to another organization and 
announced from their network. I created a ticket in ARIN and called immediately.



They confirmed that our subnet had been accidentally reallocated to another 
customer, and that they are currently working on returning it to us. After a 
couple hours, they told us the other organization will stop announcing the 
prefix, and WHOIS will be returned shortly.



I’m guessing there’s no way to prevent this kind of thing on our side if the 
RPKI ROA itself is removed along with the allocation? I’m planning on adding 
checks to look for missing ROAs (in addition to invalid/expiring ones), which 
I'm guessing would've caught this earlier.



Have any of you had anything like this happen with ARIN or another RIR? I’m 
especially curious what might have happened if we’d only noticed and reached 
out a few weeks later instead of within a few minutes.



Best,

Chase Lauer

GalaxyGate, AS397031

https://galaxygate.net
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