Re: [apnic-talk] The Great AFRINIC Heist -- The Enablers
Hi Ronald,
Thank you and duly noted your suggestions. We'll be in touch with you if more details are needed.
Regards,
Sanjaya
APNIC Deputy Director General
-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 4 February 2020 2:59 PM
To: Sanjaya Sanjaya <sanjaya@apnic.net>
Cc: mailman_APNIC-talk <apnic-talk@apnic.net>
Subject: Re: [apnic-talk] The Great AFRINIC Heist -- The Enablers
In message <TY2PR04MB3071CD402AD6A04083E85E74B1060@TY2PR04MB3071.apcprd04.prod.outlook.com>, you wrote:
>Thank you for sharing this information. Where the ASN holder has an
>account relationship with APNIC, we will notify them of this post and
>ask them to review their advertised prefixes against your list here.
Thank you Sanjaya. I would greatly appreciate it if APNIC would contact all of the relevant networks and tell tnem in no uncertain terms that they are routing stolen space and that they should cease doing that immediately.
Please DO NOT beat around the bush with them. That will only make matters worse. You need to tell them point blank that they are routing stolen space. If none of the information on this large theft from AFRINIC that has appeared in the press is enough to convince you that I am right about 100% of this, then please contact me off list and I will more than happy to show you the persuasive and overwhelming evidence of what has happened with respect to each stolen block in turn.
I have to be honest and say that it is exceptionally frustrating for me to have already done all of the careful analysis to prove the case with respect to each and every one of the stolen AFRINIC blocks, and to have already had most or all of this painstaking analysis appear in the public news media, and for me to have also posted here, and elsewhere, a list of those networks that are actively participating in further enriching the criminals behind all of these thefts, only to look again, days later, and see that nothing at all has changed in the slightest.
This is the level of responsiveness that one expects from the Wuhan city government, but I had expected better of the Internet community as a whole, and the APNIC community in particular. In short, I am totally disappointed by what is clearly a world-wide non-response to the revelations that AFRINIC had a crooked insider who stole a masive amount of valuable IPv4 space from that organization and from its legacy holders. I am even more disappointed
at the utter lack of response within the APNIC region. Of the 63 different
networks listed in the updated list below, fully 24 of them... well over 1/3rd of the total... are APNIC region networks. And of the top eight offenders who are still routing stolen AFRINIC space, four of those eight are in the APNIC region.
As reported in the press and on AFRINIC mailing lists, when it became apparent to AFRINIC that it had been massively victimized, AFRINIC called on officials from APNIC to help them to asses the damage and try to figure out exactly what had gone wrong. Obviously APNIC was being treated by AFRINIC almost as a friendly and helpful big brother. But so far, as evidenced below, the entire APNIC region is NOT helping AFRINIC and is only perpetuating this ongoing problem. For this utter lack of helpfulness a fair amount of shame should fall on the entire APNIC "community".
3453 0 ?? UNROUTED IP SPACE
629 132165 PK Connect Communication
512 18013 HK Asline Limited
504 19969 US Joe's Datacenter, LLC
500 62355 CO Network Dedicated SAS
423 202425 SC IP Volume inc
286 58895 PK Ebone Network (PVT.) Limited
250 136525 PK Wancom (Pvt) Ltd.
192 18530 US Isomedia, Inc.
186 9009 GB M247 Ltd
134 262287 BR Maxihost LTDA
132 204655 NL Novogara LTD
78 132116 IN Ani Network Pvt Ltd
77 136384 PK Optix Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited
68 132422 HK Hong Kong Business Telecom Limited
60 137443 HK Anchnet Asia Limited
48 63956 AU Colocation Australia Pty Ltd
26 132335 IN LeapSwitch Networks Pvt Ltd
24 131284 AF Etisalat Afghan
20 139043 PK WellNetworks (Private) Limited
19 43092 JP OSOA Corporation., LTD
17 36351 US SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
16 23679 ID Media Antar Nusa PT.
16 199267 IL Netstyle A. Ltd
16 56611 NL REBA Communications BV
14 137085 IN Nixi
10 63018 US Dedicated.com
9 136782 JP Pingtan Hotline Co., Limited
8 45671 AU Servers Australia Pty. Ltd
8 57717 NL FiberXpress BV
7 134451 SG NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
7 49335 RU LLC "Server v arendy"
6 135223 IN Netway Internet Pvt Ltd
6 49367 IT Seflow S.N.C. Di Marco Brame' & C.
6 26754 ?? {{unknown organization}}
5 198381 AE Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
5 198504 AE Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
4 263812 AR TL Group SRL ( IPXON Networks )
4 42831 GB UK Dedicated Servers Limited
4 133495 PK Vision telecom Private limited
4 37200 NG SimbaNET Nigeria Limited
4 30827 GB Extraordinary Managed Services Ltd
4 38001 SG NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
4 198394 AE Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
2 31122 IE Digiweb ltd
2 11990 US Unlimited Net, LLC
2 45382 KR Ehostict
2 328096 UG truIT Uganda Limited
2 53999 CA Priority Colo Inc
2 44066 DE First Colo GmbH
2 46562 US Total Server Solutions L.L.C.
2 17216 US Dc74 Llc
2 198247 AE Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
2 13737 US Riverfront Internet Systems LLC
2 38713 PK Satcomm (Pvt.) Ltd.
2 133933 PK NetSat Private Limited
2 20860 GB Iomart Cloud Services Limited
1 2905 ZA Mtn Sa
1 203833 DE First Colo GmbH
1 43945 IL Netstyle A. Ltd
1 23470 US ReliableSite.Net LLC
1 19832 ZA Link Data Group
1 35074 NG Cobranet Limited
1 134917 IN Ragsaa Communication pvt. ltd.