[103094] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Kenyan Route Hijack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Mar 16 01:28:54 2008
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:26:16 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
CC: NANOG NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>, Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
In-Reply-To: <18a5e7cb0803152213t45427a46k24de4ca803195373@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> A popular reason from longer ago was enterprises that used
> arbitrary addresses for their internal networks,
> which was safe because they'd never be connected to the real internet.
> RFC1918 has made that problem mostly go away,
> but as recently as 1995 I had a customer who was a bank that was
> using University of Toronto IP addresses internally.
> We were working on their databases, not their networks,
> so while we strongly recommended they renumber some time soon,
> it wasn't happening during our project.
italian isps are notorious for using us military and other non-announced
networks for infrastructure. i get a bit of a giggle out of it now. but
boy was i shocked when i first did a traceroute from some public network
in bologna years back.
randy
