Hello Ronald,

if you'd open the traceroute you just sent you'd see that the target is route looping and not actually used by their alleged customer? Since the loop is actually between the FDC aggregation router and Cogent's backbone router. Also, what would the target IP have been in this case, since it was omitted?

On Sep. 6 2019, at 11:06 pm, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
In message <23540.1567802066@segfault.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote:

Is anyone disputing that 168.198.0.0/16 belongs to the Australian
national government, or that AS174, Cogent was, until quite recently,
routing that down to their pals at FDCServers who then were routing
it down to their customer, Elad Cohen? If so, I ask that people look
up this network in the RIPE Routing history tool and ALSO that folks
have a look at, and explain, the following traceroute from August 23:

https://pastebin.com/raw/2nJtbwjs

My apologies. In my furious haste, I botched that one URL. Here is the
correct file conatining my traceroute to 168.198.12.242 as performed by
me on August 23rd:

https://pastebin.com/raw/TrLbGZuW


Regards,
rfg