North Korea Offline With Invalid Routes for AS131279
2025-03-18 • NKInternet •
https://nkinternet.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/north-korea-offline-with-invalid-routes-for-as131279/
Connectivity to North Korea-linked AS131279 dropped on March 18, 2025 after changes to the SOA record and Route Origin Authorization for 175.45.176.0/22. The new ROA authorized AS131279 as the origin but set the maximum prefix length to /22, while the network had been announcing four /24 prefixes such as 175.45.176.0/24 and 175.45.177.0/24. Those /24 announcements therefore became RPKI Invalid, making the 175.45.176.0/22 space unreachable until the routing configuration was corrected. The outage lasted about 17 hours, providing useful situational awareness for researchers tracking North Korean internet infrastructure and routing dependencies.