| Bogus announcements are probably filtered by your upstream(s) (see [1] for a common list of filters). IP-to-ASN mappings are typically built from route collectors [2,3] that peer with various networks and receive their announcements. AFAIK route collectors don't filter anything and it's easy to find bogus announcements (e.g. private ASNs) in the data. I can't find 4294967296 from a quick glance at the latest RouteViews data but I can find other private ASNs. For example AS7594 - AS2764 - AS4294901866 for 210.10.189.0/24 seen by the route-views.perth collector. I don't know what kind of filtering iptoasn.com is doing but at work (ipinfo.io) we do filter bogus origins, as well as a bunch of other things like RPKI/IRR-invalid routes and hyper-specific prefixes (> /24 or /48) [4]. [1] https://bgpfilterguide.nlnog.net [2] https://www.routeviews.org/routeviews/ [3] https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/routing-i... [4] https://hyperspecifics.io |
That said you're ultimately right that my upstream provider is filtering the 4294901866 value from the article as well anyways for the reasons you stated.