<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please contact STC guys directly if you have questions. You can get their emails from the chain below. The provider I believe is Sprint as it says below also.<div><br></div><div>Regards, <br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Aftab Siddiqui wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p>Which upstream provider? And can anyone suggest the reason behind adding garbage attributes. <br>
Interestingly one of RE crashed coz of it. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 10, 2011 6:07 PM, "Bilal Alsabbagh" <<a href="mailto:bilal@nxme.net">bilal@nxme.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> OK. Here is STC reply come about this case.<br>> <br>
> Regards,<br>> <br>> Bilal<br>> <br>> Begin forwarded message:<br>> <br>>> From: "Helpdesk-IGW" <<a href="mailto:helpdesk@igw.net.sa">helpdesk@igw.net.sa</a>><br>>> Subject: RE: [menog] Saudi Telecom sending route with invalid attributes <a href="http://212.118.142.0/24">212.118.142.0/24</a><br>
>> Date: September 10, 2011 4:00:53 PM GMT+03:00<br>>> To: "'Bilal Alsabbagh'" <<a href="mailto:bilal@nxme.net">bilal@nxme.net</a>>, <<a href="mailto:router@saudi.net.sa">router@saudi.net.sa</a>>, <<a href="mailto:noc@saudi.net.sa">noc@saudi.net.sa</a>><br>
>> Cc: <<a href="mailto:ioc@citc.gov.sa">ioc@citc.gov.sa</a>>, <<a href="mailto:helpdesk@internet.gov.sa">helpdesk@internet.gov.sa</a>>, "'Helpdesk-IGW'" <<a href="mailto:helpdesk@igw.net.sa">helpdesk@igw.net.sa</a>><br>
>> <br>>> Dears,<br>>> <br>>> we already know that as one of our Upstream Providers Sprint blocked our subnet and re-advertised again as its own Subnet which makes some of upstream Providers block it .<br>
>> Anyway we are working on these upstream Providers who block it to unblock now<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> Best Regards,<br>>> <br>>> Hany Abdulhay<br>>> Saudi Telecom Company<br>>> SaudiNet & Internet Center(SNIC)<br>
>> Network and Surveillance<br>>> Tel: +96614525020<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> From: Bilal Alsabbagh [mailto:<a href="mailto:bilal@nxme.net">bilal@nxme.net</a>] <br>>> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 3:31 PM<br>
>> To: <a href="mailto:helpdesk@igw.net.sa">helpdesk@igw.net.sa</a>; <a href="mailto:router@saudi.net.sa">router@saudi.net.sa</a>; <a href="mailto:noc@saudi.net.sa">noc@saudi.net.sa</a><br>>> Cc: <a href="mailto:ioc@citc.gov.sa">ioc@citc.gov.sa</a>; <a href="mailto:helpdesk@internet.gov.sa">helpdesk@internet.gov.sa</a><br>
>> Subject: Fwd: [menog] Saudi Telecom sending route with invalid attributes <a href="http://212.118.142.0/24">212.118.142.0/24</a><br>>> <br>>> Dear SaudiData Admins,<br>>> <br>>> For your information and action please. Complains are being recently received about the way the subnet <a href="http://212.118.142.0/24">212.118.142.0/24</a> is being announced. You can find more details below. Appreciate your action on this!<br>
>> <br>>> Regards.<br>>> <br>>> Bilal Al Sabbagh<br>>> CITC, Internet Operations Center,<br>>> Phone +966 (1) 2639239<br>>> Fax +966 (1) 2639242<br>>> <br>>> <br>
>> <br>>> Begin forwarded message:<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> From: Bilal Alsabbagh <<a href="mailto:bilal@nxme.net">bilal@nxme.net</a>><br>>> Subject: Re: [menog] Saudi Telecom sending route with invalid attributes <a href="http://212.118.142.0/24">212.118.142.0/24</a><br>
>> Date: September 10, 2011 1:48:34 PM GMT+03:00<br>>> To: <a href="mailto:abuse@saudi.net.sa">abuse@saudi.net.sa</a><br>>> Cc: "menog@menog. net" <<a href="mailto:menog@menog.net">menog@menog.net</a>>, "Jonas Frey (Probe Networks)" <<a href="mailto:jf@probe-networks.de">jf@probe-networks.de</a>>, Richard Barnes <<a href="mailto:richard.barnes@gmail.com">richard.barnes@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> <br>>> Forwarding to abuse contact of this network: <a href="mailto:abuse@saudi.net.sa">abuse@saudi.net.sa</a> . The actual origin AS for this network is Sprint AS1239 which does not match with the AS PATH information provided in your snapshot below, thus this error came, probably.<br>
>> <br>>> Hopefully we hear something from them! <br>>> <br>>> Regards,<br>>> <br>>> Bilal<br>>> <br>>> On Sep 9, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:<br>>> <br>>> <br>
>> Forwaring to MENOG in case anyone from STC is listening there...<br>>> --Richard<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>>> From: Jonas Frey (Probe Networks) <<a href="mailto:jf@probe-networks.de">jf@probe-networks.de</a>><br>
>> Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:11 PM<br>>> Subject: Saudi Telecom sending route with invalid attributes <a href="http://212.118.142.0/24">212.118.142.0/24</a><br>>> To: <a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org">nanog@nanog.org</a><br>
>> <br>>> <br>>> Hello,<br>>> <br>>> anyone else getting a route for <a href="http://212.118.142.0/24">212.118.142.0/24</a> with invalid<br>>> attributes? Seems this is (again) causing problems with some (older)<br>
>> routers/software.<br>>> <br>>> Announcement bits (4): 0-KRT 3-KRT 5-Resolve tree 1<br>>> 6-Resolve tree 2<br>>> AS path: 6453 39386 25019 I Unrecognized Attributes: 39<br>
>> bytes<br>>> AS path: Attr flags e0 code 80: 00 00 fd 88 40 01 01 02<br>>> 40 02 04 02 01 5b a0 c0 11 04 02 01 fc da 80 04 04 00 00 00 01 40 05 04<br>>> 00 00 00 64<br>>> Accepted Multipath<br>
>> <br>>> <br>>> -Jonas<br>>> <signature.asc>_______________________________________________<br>>> Menog mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:Menog@menog.net">Menog@menog.net</a><br>
>> <a href="http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog">http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog</a><br>>> <br>> <br></div>
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