Hi Anurag,
Many thanks for pointing out the inconsistency. The "IN" in the ftp file is an error and it is being corrected. We will soon run a consistency check and investigate the cause of the error.
I can confirm that 202.141.224.0/19 is allocated to PK as indicated by the Whois record.
Once again, thank you for your question. My sincere apologies for the confusion caused.
George Kuo
APNIC
From: <apnic-talk-bounces@lists.apnic.net> on behalf of Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com>
Date: Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 6:19 pm
To: mailman_APNIC-talk <apnic-talk@apnic.net>
Subject: [apnic-talk] APNIC's allocation to Multinet Pakistan_______________________________________________
Hello everyone,
I am trying to understand a case scenario where a Pakistan based ISP (Multinet Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.) AS9260 is being allocated and originating certain addresses which are officially delegated to Indian operator (though whois record reflects Pakistan).
Example pool which shows this behaviour:
202.141.224.0/19 (visible in routing table, originated by AS9260)
Here, whois query to APNIC DB reflects:
% [whois.apnic.net]
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
% Information related to '202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255'
% Abuse contact for '202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255' is 'abuse@multinet.com.pk'
inetnum: 202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255
netname: MULTINETPAKISTAN
descr: Multinet Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.
country: PK
org: ORG-MB4-AP
admin-c: AAA3-AP
tech-c: IC219-AP
mnt-by: APNIC-HM
mnt-routes: MAINT-PK-MULTINETPAKISTAN
mnt-lower: MAINT-PK-MULTINETPAKISTAN
mnt-irt: IRT-MULTINETBROADBAND-PK
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
last-modified: 2017-11-13T13:01:16Z
source: APNIC
Seems like a regular allocation to this network. But if we look at the APNIC's delegation data (https://ftp.apnic.net/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-extended-latest), it shows:
grep "202.141.224.0" delegated-apnic-extended-latest
apnic|IN|ipv4|202.141.224.0|8192|20020419|allocated|A91733A8
Here the allocated country is India. Is this is a case of IP address transfer? Or a case where APNIC might have allocated it to an Indian network back in 2002 and later pool was returned and allocated to this network in Pakistan? Many tools which try to map prefixes to the country based on the RIR data will map/assume this prefix to be belonging to India which certainly not seem to be the case here.
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