[anti-abuse-wg] Mysteries of the Internet: AS65000

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 05:43:55PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

>https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_asinfo
>https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_prefixes
>https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_prefixes6
>https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_peers
>https://bgp.he.net/AS65000#_peers6
>
>The only other thing I feel compelled to say, or ask right now, is just
>this:   Who should I be notifying if there is an issue with this ASN?
>It has no WHOIS reords, and thus, no contacts... no email addresses, no
>phone numbers, no snail-mail addresses.  Nothing...
>
>... and yet this thing has, according to bgp.he.net, no fewer than 27 IPv4
>peers and another 2 for IPv6 only!
>
>I await an explanation from some actual expert.  For myself, I can only
>say that none of this makes a damn bit of sense to me.  But I am willing
>and eager to be educated.

Most likely this is either used in error as an advertising ASN by
someone who doesn't know what they are doing (like the RFC1918
space that crops up in the DFZ now and again) or it's used
internally in their networks and they have omitted to configure
their routers to strip private ASNs from their advertisements
(yes, I've forgotten this myself on occasion).

rgds,
SL