[102703] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: YouTube IP Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Feb 25 03:43:28 2008
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20080225092523.00ab9800@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:04:52 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Feb 25, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> At 07:15 PM 24-02-08 -0500, Randy Epstein wrote:
>
>> More importantly, why is PCCW not prefix filtering their downstreams?
>
> Why?
>
> - Lack of clue
> - Couldn't care less
> - No revenue
>
> Take your pick - or add your own reason. PCCW is not alone. They
> just happen to be the latest in a long line of ISPs that follow the
> same rules - their own.
All good, er, bad reasons. Fixing the "filter your downstreams"
problem is very important. It would also solve 90-something percent
of the problems mentioned in this thread. E.g. as7007. :)
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TTFN,
patrick
