On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
IPs are announced by Level3... I respect this company but looks like Level3 is scammed and currently announce without necessary permissions.
Again, do you believe these networks are hijacked? If they are in
Hmm - so who should announce it? And who owns the netblock? The whois etc lookups below could put this either in the US or in Eastern Europe / Russia or in Italy. $ whois -h whois.radb.net 79.110.224.0/20 route: 79.110.224.0/20 descr: Avangard origin: AS50245 mnt-by: SERVEREL-MNT changed: noc@serverel.com 20110210 source: RIPE remarks: **************************** remarks: * THIS OBJECT IS NOT VALID remarks: * Please note that all data that is generally regarded as personal remarks: * data has been removed from this object. remarks: * http://www.ripe.net/whois remarks: **************************** Has a US address in the whois - which a little googling shows is a maildrop. http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=1186687006636177... person: Serverel NOC address: 14525 SW Millikan Way # 33735 Beaverton, OR 97005-2343 phone: +1(877)246 78 63 abuse-mailbox: abuse@serverel.com serverel.com Name-- Iurii Salmanov EMail-: (domains@serverel.com) serverel.net name: Andrew Neal mail: domains@serverel.com tel: +1.8772467863 org: Serverel Corporation Then ripe whois says the netblock is either owned by someone in the ukraine or in italy inetnum: 79.110.224.0 - 79.110.239.255 netname: Avangard descr: PE "Avangard" country: UA person: Karol Wojtula <- named for the late pope john paul II, I see ..? address: Bari , Italy , Piazzale Cristoforo Colombo, 1, 70122 <- google that address and its the ferry port in Bari, Italy. phone: +39 080 327 8841 And AS50425 - which'd announce it if that RADB object was actually valid - is in russia, not the czech republic organisation: ORG-JS33-RIPE org-name: Closed JSC "TV Services" org-type: OTHER address: 43, Bolshoy Tishinskiy per., Moscow, Russia, 123557 mnt-ref: TV-SERVICE-MNT mnt-by: TV-SERVICE-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered person: Dolgopolov Alexey address: Russia address: Moscow address: 43, Bolshoy Tishinskiy per phone: +7 495 9334592 nic-hdl: DA489-RIPE source: RIPE # Filtered So - the whois for these is quite confusing - not very easy for any one entity to establish ownership? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)