Dear Brian, It appears that RIPE NCC is lacking a clear and expedient procedure to remedy unauthorised route object creation. I'd be happy to volunteer to work with the RIPE NCC to develop a procedure that aligns with industry standards on how to verify abuse reports like these and resolve them in a timely manner. (Of course this doesn't help you right now.) The topic of ARIN space in the RIPE database has been discussed extensively. A long thread on this topic started here https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2017-October/005622.html, sadly, some people even indicated they don't see an issue with how things are right now https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2017-October/005627.html Fortunately this was a minority view, and the RIPE NCC is now tasked to more clearly mark non-authoritative route objects as can be read here: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/routing-wg/2017-October/003456.html One thing I recommend you do is to set the "OriginAS" through the ARIN webinterface, this will show the world what the origin AS ought to be: https://www.arin.net/resources/originas.html. You could reference this field in your communication with RIPE NCC to demonstrate that the RIPE IRR version of the route object does not align with your intentions. Another thing you can do is file complaints with the upstreams of AS205869 (some of them visible here https://bgp.he.net/AS205869) Telia seems to be their main provider. Kind regards, Job On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 11:22:33AM -0500, Brian Rak via db-wg wrote:
Hi,
We've run into an issue where an unknown malicious party appears to have hijacked some of our IP space. They created entries in the RIPE database that they are using to actually get this space announced. What's even worse is their carrier is trying to say these announcements are legitimate because they have IRR entries (which is a whole other issue)
What is the process like for actually getting this fraudulent entry removed? I've been in contact with RIPE NCC Support, and they have been super unhelpful (ref case #14523)
The fraudulent entry is:
https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=198.13.32.0/19AS39967&type=route
route: 198.13.32.0/19 descr: 2nd route origin: AS39967 mnt-by: ADMASTER-MNT created: 2017-10-13T00:20:08Z last-modified: 2017-10-13T00:20:08Z source: RIPE
I should also note that this ASN suspiciously appears to be announcing other people's space as well, but I can only confirm that this particular entry does not belong. I would suspect that their other IRR entries are fake as well.
You can verify my request by reaching out to any of the POCs associated with this network: https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-198-13-32-0-1
Thanks, Brian Rak