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Re: Kenyan Route Hijack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun Mar 16 02:28:21 2008

From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:25:21 GMT
To: glen.kent@gmail.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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- -- "Glen Kent" <glen.kent@gmail.com> wrote:

>If its done intentionally then it would only make sense if theres a
>DOS attack coming from that address block, or if theres something
>"blasphemous" put up there. If none of these, then why locally
>blackhole traffic?
>

Usually unintentional. See Pakistan Telecom for recent example.

- - ferg

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