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Re: ISP's who where affected by the misconfiguration: start

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Mon Feb 25 02:57:43 2008

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:25:05 +0200
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0802250010330.20901@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


At 12:13 AM 25-02-08 +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

>For us who actually have customers we care about, we probably find it 
>better for business to try to make sure our own customers can't announce 
>prefixes they don't own, but accept basically anything from the world that 
>isn't ours.

You are a distinct minority.  My experience has shown that most ISPs don't 
give a sh*t about filtering what their customers can announce so what has 
happened, will continue to happen.

-Hank



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