On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 05:43:55PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_asinfo https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_prefixes https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_prefixes6 https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_peers https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_peers6
The only other thing I feel compelled to say, or ask right now, is just this: Who should I be notifying if there is an issue with this ASN? It has no WHOIS reords, and thus, no contacts... no email addresses, no phone numbers, no snail-mail addresses. Nothing...
... and yet this thing has, according to bgp.he.net, no fewer than 27 IPv4 peers and another 2 for IPv6 only!
I await an explanation from some actual expert. For myself, I can only say that none of this makes a damn bit of sense to me. But I am willing and eager to be educated.
Most likely this is either used in error as an advertising ASN by someone who doesn't know what they are doing (like the RFC1918 space that crops up in the DFZ now and again) or it's used internally in their networks and they have omitted to configure their routers to strip private ASNs from their advertisements (yes, I've forgotten this myself on occasion). rgds, SL