[102699] in North American Network Operators' Group
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