[routing-wg] AS43890

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 09:46:33AM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> > Also, RIPE-resident hijackers can just as easily place validating
> > route objects for these hijacked RIPE-issued IP blocks into the RIPE
> > DB as they can for any other hijacked blocks taken from any other
> > region(s).
> 
> No...  the RIPE DB prevents route: objects for RIPE (NCC-issued) networks
> by checking the maintainer authentication for inetnum: and aut-num: - so
> unless the address holder is careless ("pick a 5 character easily guessable
> password" or "reference a well-known maintainer") it is much harder to do,
> if not impossible.
> 
> Now, I hear what you're saying and I look at 188.229.1.0/24 and wonder
> what has happened, and why "whois --list-versions" isn't showing me the
> update/creation history for the /24 route...

You need to query as following to retrieve the history of route objects:

    $ whois -h whois.ripe.net -- '--list-versions 188.229.1.0/24AS43890'

> Now, looking at the route:
> 
> route:          188.229.1.0/24
> descr:          Netserv-Client
> origin:         AS43890
> mnt-by:         NETSERV-MNT
> changed:        ripe at netserv.ro.REMOVE 20130820
> source:         RIPE
> 
> ... it claims to have been created in the time between (changed: is not
> authoritative, but in this case looks plausible).

The history lists: "1     2014-05-12 18:23  ADD/UPD"

Kind regards,

Job