[Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb, Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
Included below are summraies of the current routing of the various AFRINIC-assigned blocks belonging to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC (LiquidWeb, Inc.) and also ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC (Fiber Grid, Inc.) I am providing these to the AFRINIC community in support of my prior assertion that no part or portion of the AFRINIC-assigned blocks of these two companies are, at present, being routed to any country within the AFRINIC region, nor to any country or countries that are even adjacent to the AFRINIC region. The routing summaries below were computed based upon raw data specifying the specific ASNs that are routing each of the constituent /24 "C" blocks that make up the totality of the registered AFRINIC blocks currently assigned to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC respectively. That raw data was obtained by me, programatically, via the "RESTful" web interface of the RIPEStat data base. The raw data from which the summaries below were computed may obtained via the following two links, or alternatively, directly fronm RIEPStat, for the benefit of anyone wishing to independently confirm my analysis. ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC: https://pastebin.com/raw/rzWSckCs ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC: https://pastebin.com/raw/sgFGNjwH Additionally, the Perl scripts that I have used to fetch the above raw data from RIPEStat, as well as the scripts I have used to compute from that raw data the routing summary tables shown below are all availiable from me upon request. I would be more than happy to have others independently perform the same routing analysis as I have done with respect to the IPv4 space currently assigned to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC. The routing summary tables below each contain four fields as follows: 1) Number of constituent /24 "C" blocks routed by the given ASN. 2) The AS number. 3) The applicable two-letter ISO 3166 country code. 4) The full name of the ORGanization to which the ASN is registered. Note that a good deal of the IPv4 space registered to ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC is currently being routed by RIPE-issued ASNs registered to "Inter Connects Inc". Upon information and belief, "Inter Connects Inc" is a Delaware (US) corporate entity for which Mr. Deepak Mehta is either a beneficial owner or else possibly THE beneficial owner. Mr. Mehta is of course free to dispute this contention, as and when he sees fit. Please note however that an entity calling itself "Inter Connects Inc" is also currently represented within the RIPE WHOIS data base where it is designated via the handle ORG-DMF2-RIPE and that the RIPE WHOIS history of that organization handle indicates that it was previously associated with "Deepak Mehta FIE": https://pastebin.com/raw/wnF8g2gh Please note that AS393489, which appears in the second table below, is officially a bogon (unassigned) AS number at present. Prior to the reclamation of this ASN by ARIN, this specific ASN was assigned to a U.S. company named "ADT Systems, Inc." and that company appears to still be using AS393489, even though AS393489 is now officially a bogon ASN. Please take note also that the organization to which the RIPE-issued AS58110 is registered (IP Volume LTD - UK) may or may not have any connection whatsoever to the registrant organization for AS202425 (IP Volume, Inc. - Seychelles) which has for some time announced a route to the stolen AFRINIC legacy block 196.16.0.0/14, said block being the rightful property of the South African national government's IT arm, "SITA", accoring to all reliable historical evidence. The country codes listed in the following two summary tables, if accurate, support my view that the AFRINIC-assigned IPv4 address blocks of both ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC are likely not, at present, being routed to any geographical points within the AFRINIC region, thus placing both of these AFRINIC member organizations in clear violation of the legally binding AFRINIC Bylaws. This, of course, is in addition to and on top of the fact that both organizations appear to have obtained some or all of their AFRINIC- assigned IPv4 address space illicitly, most probaby by way of the dismissed and disgraced Ernest Byaruhanga. Current routing summary for ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC: - 3795 0 ?? UNROUTED IP SPACE 233 58065 UK Packet Exchange Limited 164 41564 UK Packet Exchange Limited 79 57858 US Inter Connects Inc 30 204353 UK Global Offshore Limited 13 63119 US Inter Connects Inc 10 60485 US Inter Connects Inc 8 46805 US Inter Connects Inc 7 48950 UK Global Colocation Limited 6 57972 US Inter Connects Inc 4 37518 SC Fiber Grid INC 2 40676 US Psychz Networks 1 50304 NO Blix Solutions AS Current routing summary for ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC: - 280 0 ?? UNROUTED IP SPACE 111 12025 US Iron Mountain Data Center 68 3356US Level 3 Parent, LLC
Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources
In message <9a35ce76-e056-4547-b7fd-52696c5c7...@darwincosta.com>, "d...@darwincosta.com" wrote: >@Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday >night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into >our attention and YES - we "will" or "have" >to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure >that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be. Thank you for yor support. I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region. But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking, the least of it all. Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes, back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to light last year (2019). Eddy even said that technical personnel and representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being brought in to help with this effort. That was many MANY months ago now. (Also, as I'm sure many of you know, Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and management for over an entire calendar year now.) So this raises the obvious question: Why didn't Eddy and the Board already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4 allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my posting the other day about those? And if they did know, then why did they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee Ernest Byaruhanga? It has to be one or the other. There is no third possibility. Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent, or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million IPv4 addresses. I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse. Either the so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region. I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga. If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records. On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary man-on-the-street netizens are privy to. Regards, rfg P.S. I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters under the carpet, as much as possible. My belief is based on the fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision... privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen, to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to protest. The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only partially set right. The City of Cape Town, the commercial South African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims. Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even as
Re: [afnog] [Community-Discuss] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> On 19 Dec 2020, at 18:09, Noah wrote: > > >> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac, wrote: >> ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in >> discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at higher >> value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything. >> No wonder the urgency in getting the policy ratified ..! > Thomas, > > Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal > which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role > for AFRINIC with: > > ⁃ Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies > ⁃ No need based justification > ⁃ No checking of valid “ right to use“ and no dispute. > ⁃ The list is endless > > The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors > and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best interests > of the AFRICAN region. >> my 2 cents >> > > You are spot on. > > Cheers, > Noah > ___ > afnog mailing list > https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog ___ afnog mailing list https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog
Re: [afnog] [Community-Discuss] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources
On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac, wrote: > ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in > discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at > higher value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything. > Thomas, Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role for AFRINIC with: ⁃ Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies ⁃ No need based justification ⁃ No checking of valid “ right to use“ and no dispute. ⁃ The list is endless The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best interests of the AFRICAN region. > my 2 cents > You are spot on. Cheers, Noah ___ afnog mailing list https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog
