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
On 31/5/18 6:18 pm, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> 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 <http://202.141.224.0/19> (visible in routing table,
> originated by AS9260)
> Here, whois query to APNIC DB reflects:
>
> % [whois.apnic.net <http://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 <mailto: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?
>
> --
>
>
> Anurag Bhatia
> anuragbhatia.com <http://anuragbhatia.com>
>
>
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