31 Jan
2021
31 Jan
'21
4:58 p.m.
Hi Damien!
Yes the spreadsheet only shows prefixes seen in BGP routing table
which do not match one in the portal. Like your prefix, my
44.131.4.0/24 and 44.131.5.0/24 are not in it as they prefix match a
portal entry.
At the suggestion of others on this thread, I included extra columns
today for whois lookups. In this case if a prefix is seen in the BGP
routing table, but doesn't have a portal public, but does have a whois
entry it is shown! I am not sure for what reason a prefix would be
allocated in the first place without making it visible on the portal,
it is a community resource after all.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nb4cTYVG1tm4HpxgPp7TAcgZ_qOlcej1whd…
Scripts and dumps - https://github.com/natm/amprnet-observer
One other idea someone suggested was including a column for a matching
AltDB record, I will add that tomorrow.
Nat,
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 9:53 PM Damien Gardner <vk2tdg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just wanted to double-check.. Is the spreadsheet ONLY the prefixes which don’t appear in
the AMPR portal? (As my 44.136.201.0/24 is not appearing in that list, and it’s definitely
appearing in BGP on lg.he.net :) )
I do agree on it being really bizarre that some regions only have a /16 listed in the
portal, and none of their more specifics. That has thrown me a few times.
Cheers,
DG
On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 at 1:36 pm, Nat Morris via 44Net <44net(a)mailman.ampr.org>
wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Over the last few months I have noticed some odd BGP announcements of
> prefixes which have no allocations in the AMPRnet portal. After
> spotting 5 or 6 of these it made me wonder how many existed.
>
> This evening I took a snapshot of the RIPE RIS data for announcements
> within 44.0.0.0/9 and 44.128.0.0/10, which took place in 2021. Then
> scraped the allocations from the AMPRnet portal, compared prefixes
> directly and then used a radix tree to find a best match.
>
> The resulting data
>
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nb4cTYVG1tm4HpxgPp7TAcgZ_qOlcej1whd…
>
> At first glance there are some expected entries, for example users
> with a /22 or /23 announcing a more specific /24.
>
> What really worries me is the amount of announcements of /24s where
> the closest portal documented prefix is a /16. Are these being used
> legitimately? do AMPR co-ordinators what details about them? or have
> they been hijacked?
>
> Look for example at /24 announcements within country assignments, but
> no specific description!
>
> I would like to start a discussion around these specific prefixes.
>
> The scripts I wrote are here https://github.com/natm/amprnet-observer
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Nat.
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