[dns-operations] Strange things at C root name server

Alarig Le Lay alarig at swordarmor.fr
Wed May 22 00:43:25 UTC 2024


On Tue 21 May 2024 22:45:38 GMT, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> When you say “is allocated to,” do you mean something other than that
> they’re BGP announcing 38.230.3.0/24?  Because the IANA and all five
> RIRs appear to me to be in agreement that 38.230.3.0/24 is still part
> of 38/8, and is still a legacy allocation to PSInet, and thus to their
> inheritor Cogent, in the ARIN region.
> 
> This appears to me to be a simple instance of BGP hijacking.  And,
> amusingly, an unintentional origination, so the one quadrant of the
> intentional/unintentional origin/path matrix which RPKI could
> potentially have helped with.
> 
>                                 -Bill

That doesn’t looks like hijacking, the cogent whois refers to the /17
being assigned to Orange CI, and they are announcing part of it.

2:05 alarig at FR-PAR-4DWH ~ % whois 38.230.3.46
[…]
Found a referral to rwhois.cogentco.com:4321.

%rwhois V-1.5:0010b0:00 rwhois.cogentco.com (CGNT rwhoisd 1.2.0)
network:ID:NET4-26E6000011
network:Network-Name:NET4-26E6000011
network:IP-Network:38.230.0.0/17
network:Org-Name:Orange Cote d'Ivoire
network:Street-Address:CABLE SAT3 CLS, RUA AMÉLIA FRADE
network:City:SESIMBRA
network:Country:PT
network:Postal-Code:2970 – 712
network:Tech-Contact:ZC108-ARIN
network:Updated:2024-05-10 16:33:20
%ok

rr2.swordarmor.fr# show bgp ipv4 unicast 38.230.0.0/17 longer-prefixes
BGP table version is 23189654, local router ID is 45.91.126.240, vrf id 0
Default local pref 100, local AS 208627
Status codes:  s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, = multipath,
               i internal, r RIB-failure, S Stale, R Removed
Nexthop codes: @NNN nexthop's vrf id, < announce-nh-self
Origin codes:  i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete
RPKI validation codes: V valid, I invalid, N Not found

    Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
 *>i38.230.0.0/24    45.91.126.255           50    100      0 29075 1273 29571 i
 * i                 45.91.126.248           50    100      0 34019 1273 29571 i
 *>i38.230.1.0/24    45.91.126.255           50    100      0 29075 5511 29571 i
 *>i38.230.2.0/24    45.91.126.255           50    100      0 29075 6762 29571 i
 *>i38.230.3.0/24    45.91.126.255           50    100      0 29075 5511 29571 29571 29571 29571 29571 29571 i
 *>i38.230.4.0/24    45.91.126.255           50    100      0 29075 5511 29571 29571 29571 29571 29571 29571 i
 *>i38.230.5.0/24    45.91.126.255           50    100      0 29075 5511 29571 29571 29571 29571 29571 29571 i
 *>i38.230.6.0/24    45.91.126.255           50    100      0 29075 5511 29571 29571 29571 29571 29571 29571 i
 *>i38.230.7.0/24    45.91.126.255           50    100      0 29075 5511 29571 i

Displayed  8 routes and 1507906 total paths

Also, c.root-servers.org (38.230.3.46) is routed as a /28 in Cogent’s
backbone:
Wed May 22 00:13:37.212 UTC
BGP routing table entry for 38.230.3.32/28
Versions:
  Process           bRIB/RIB  SendTblVer
  Speaker         2458191374  2458191374
Last Modified: Apr 11 22:34:05.626 for 5w5d
Paths: (1 available, best #1)
  Advertised IPv4 Unicast paths to peers (in unique update groups):
    38.5.0.99
  Path #1: Received by speaker 0
  Advertised IPv4 Unicast paths to peers (in unique update groups):
    38.5.0.99
  2149
    154.26.7.205 (metric 191070) from 38.28.1.83 (154.54.66.234)
      Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, internal, best, group-best, import-candidate
      Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 1, version 2458191374
      Community: 174:10001 174:20999 174:21001
      Originator: 154.54.66.234, Cluster list: 38.28.1.83, 38.28.1.67, 38.28.1.115, 154.54.66.68, 66.28.1.31

So if a network chooses to route via Cogent, it will work because it
will hit that /28 instead of the /24, but Internet views it a being
behind Orange CI via OTI.

alarig at nte-tools-01:~$ mtr -bzwe c.root-servers.org
Start: 2024-05-22T00:03:46+0000
HOST: nte-tools-01                                                               Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1. AS???    mgmt-442.nte01-fw01-0.mgmt.ouest.network (10.44.12.254)             0.0%    10    0.3   0.4   0.3   0.5   0.1
  2. AS203432 rev-89-234-176-29.faimaison.net (89.234.176.29)                     0.0%    10    0.4   0.6   0.4   0.8   0.1
  3. AS174    gi0-0-0-10.nr11.b015567-0.nte01.atlas.cogentco.com (149.11.52.81)   0.0%    10    1.4   1.6   1.2   2.0   0.2
  4. AS174    be3860.rcr61.nte01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.25.8.109)                0.0%    10    1.6   1.8   1.6   2.3   0.2
  5. AS174    be3861.rcr51.rns01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.154)               0.0%    10    3.1   3.2   3.1   3.5   0.2
  6. AS174    be3843.rcr51.uro01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.73.149)               0.0%    10    8.0   8.0   7.6   8.3   0.2
  7. AS174    be2408.ccr41.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.177)               0.0%    10    8.7   8.9   8.6   9.5   0.3
  8. AS174    be3095.ccr41.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.89.221)               0.0%    10   85.0  84.7  84.5  85.0   0.2
  9. AS174    be3351.rcr61.b000055-1.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.91.130)     0.0%    10   84.8 100.3  84.8 238.1  48.4
 10. AS174    te0-0-2-0.c-root.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.70)             0.0%    10   84.9  98.8  84.9 223.1  43.7
 11. AS29571  stats.c.root-servers.org (38.230.3.46)                              0.0%    10   84.5  88.3  84.4 122.8  12.1

grifon at grifon01:~$ mtr -bzwe c.root-servers.org
Start: 2024-05-22T00:18:39+0000
HOST: grifon01.ring.nlnog.net                                              Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1. AS204092 gw-vm-89-234-186-96-27.cogent-rns.grifon.fr (89.234.186.97)   0.0%    10    0.2   0.2   0.1   0.3   0.1
  2. AS204092 asbr02.cogent-rns.bb.grifon.fr (89.234.186.34)                0.0%    10    0.5   0.3   0.2   0.5   0.1
  3. AS30781  po6-54.er01.ren02.jaguar-network.net (31.172.233.208)         0.0%    10    2.1   2.0   1.6   2.4   0.2
  4. AS30781  be2.er01.par01.jaguar-network.net (78.153.231.41)             0.0%    10    8.8   8.8   8.6   9.0   0.1
  5. AS???    81.52.188.23                                                  0.0%    10    8.4   8.6   8.4   8.9   0.1
  6. AS???    193.251.240.148                                              10.0%    10   89.0  88.8  88.7  89.0   0.1
  7. AS???    193.251.144.28                                                0.0%    10   88.8  88.9  88.6  89.2   0.2
  8. AS29571  ica3.ae6-aica2.rp.orange-cit.ci (41.189.62.34)                0.0%    10   89.5  90.9  89.2  99.9   3.4
  9. AS29571  aica2.ae1-aica1.rp.orange-cit.ci (41.189.62.56)               0.0%    10   97.0  97.3  96.9  98.5   0.5
 10. AS???    ???                                                          100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 11. AS???    ???                                                          100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 12. AS???    ???                                                          100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 13. AS???    ???                                                          100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 14. AS29571  38.230.3.1                                                    0.0%    10   94.5  94.3  94.1  94.5   0.1
 15. AS29571  38.230.3.1                                                   80.0%    10   94.5  94.4  94.3  94.5   0.1

-- 
Alarig


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