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: >> >>> Both ranges are from RIPE region and couldn't be announced from ARIN ASN at >>> all. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> > 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. -- TTFN, patrick

