james_couzens's Journal: unallocated ARIN IP being routed by sprint?

Was routinely blocking fucking losers from China where most spam regardless of the piece of shit responsible for it "happening", most spam originates from useless Chinese boxes, when I saw this:

221.232.138.110:3776

I checked with ARIN, and its unallocated, yet some how this useless machine is attempting to deliver mail. So I traceroute:

root@data:~# traceroute 221.232.138.110
traceroute to 221.232.138.110 (221.232.138.110), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
  1 10.23.240.1 (10.23.240.1) 1.287 ms 0.736 ms 0.725 ms
  2 d142-179-88-254.bchsia.telus.net (142.179.88.254) 60.647 ms 27.669 ms 57.233 ms
  3 208.181.240.122 (208.181.240.122) 55.737 ms 120.137 ms 74.908 ms
  4 vancbc01gr01.bb.telus.com (154.11.4.65) 126.903 ms 250.688 ms 237.115 ms
  5 * * *
  6 sttlwa01gr01.bb.telus.com (209.53.75.166) 176.842 ms 298.406 ms 196.857 ms
  7 so-5-0-0-0.gar2.Seattle1.Level3.net (65.57.72.9) 140.043 ms 142.755 ms 174.737 ms
  8 so-0-0-0.gar1.Seattle1.Level3.net (209.247.8.161) 213.361 ms 123.118 ms 38.348 ms
  9 Sprint-Level3-oc48.Seattle1.Level3.net (209.0.227.134) 33.283 ms 136.914 ms 188.668 ms
10 sl-bb22-tac-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.151) 187.684 ms 292.580 ms 292.518 ms
11 sl-bb23-tac-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.17.182) 328.461 ms 180.279 ms 179.637 ms
12 sl-bb22-sj-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.8) 369.469 ms 421.774 ms 310.221 ms
13 sl-bb24-sj-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.214) 253.711 ms 399.340 ms 210.862 ms
14 sl-bb20-ana-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.100) 172.147 ms 215.595 ms 234.884 ms
15 sl-gw29-ana-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.146) 169.384 ms 214.833 ms 201.547 ms
16 * sl-china1-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.74.222) 343.960 ms 313.979 ms
17 202.97.51.161 (202.97.51.161) 711.602 ms 629.264 ms 729.061 ms
18 202.97.33.109 (202.97.33.109) 723.255 ms 584.164 ms 633.736 ms
19 202.97.36.74 (202.97.36.74) 812.010 ms * 968.519 ms
20 * 202.97.35.202 (202.97.35.202) 760.093 ms 913.376 ms
21 * 221.232.254.2 (221.232.254.2) 832.127 ms 919.101 ms
22 221.232.254.54 (221.232.254.54) 966.489 ms * *
23 * * 221.232.248.3 (221.232.248.3) 827.506 ms
24 221.232.248.50 (221.232.248.50) 840.005 ms 801.198 ms 846.312 ms
25 221.232.138.110 (221.232.138.110) 922.628 ms * *

If this range is unallocated, why the hell is sprint routing it?

root@data:~# whois 221.232.138.110

OrgName: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
OrgID: APNIC
Address: PO Box 2131
City: Milton
StateProv: QLD
PostalCode: 4064
Country: AU

ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net

NetRange: 221.0.0.0 - 221.255.255.255
CIDR: 221.0.0.0/8
NetName: APNIC7
NetHandle: NET-221-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to APNIC
NameServer: NS1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS4.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS-SEC.RIPE.NET
NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET
Comment: This IP address range is not registered in the ARIN database.
Comment: For details, refer to the APNIC Whois Database via
Comment: WHOIS.APNIC.NET or http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl
Comment: ** IMPORTANT NOTE: APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry
Comment: for the Asia Pacific region. APNIC does not operate networks
Comment: using this IP address range and is not able to investigate
Comment: spam or abuse reports relating to these addresses. For more
Comment: help, refer to http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/abuse
Comment:
RegDate:
Updated: 2005-05-20
OrgTechHandle: AWC12-ARIN
OrgTechName: APNIC Whois Contact
OrgTechPhone: [phone]
OrgTechEmail: [e-mail]

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