[apnic-talk] APNIC's allocation to Multinet Pakistan

[Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com>]

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. 

Anyone with insight on this? 

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Anurag Bhatia

anuragbhatia.com