[102770] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: YouTube IP Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Tue Feb 26 13:46:11 2008
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:22:48 -0800
From: JC Dill <lists05@equinephotoart.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B00203B544@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
> Haven't you noticed that the definition of "widely visited site"
> changes regularly, and often quite abruptly? How much traffic
> did YouTube get 3 years ago? Facebook? MySpace? There is no
> shortcut for eternal vigilance, i.e. manage your BGP relationships
> don't just configure and forget.
I hear that computers can be programed to create and maintain a list of
sites one's own customers visit frequently. The same computer (so I'm
told) could also determine which AS has authority to announce the IPs
for each site. The same computer (so I'm told) could also watch for
announcements from other ASs for the IPs from this up-to-date "widely
visited sites" list, and send out an alert or otherwise take action when
such an announcement was seen. It would be wonderful if someone would
write and share code to do just this.
jc
