[102748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: YouTube IP Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue Feb 26 03:59:38 2008
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:58:37 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20080225092523.00ab9800@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:27:41AM +0200,
Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote
a message of 17 lines which said:
> - 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.
No, most operators do filter BGP announcements. I know it, because I
have read it on Cnet:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9878655-7.html
> That's because Hong Kong-based PCCW, which provides the Internet
> link to Pakistan Telecom, did not stop the misleading
> broadcast--which is what most large providers in the United States
> and Europe do.
