[103103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Kenyan Route Hijack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alastair Johnson)
Sun Mar 16 07:51:28 2008
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:49:52 +1300
From: Alastair Johnson <aj@sneep.net>
To: kgasso@visp.net
CC: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <47DCF9AD.7000300@visp.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Kameron Gasso wrote:
> Christopher Morrow wrote:
>> I think it was Abovenet that blackholed a /24 of (I want to say MAPS,
>> but that's not right) an anti-spam-RBL sometime pre-1999?
>
> If I'm not mistaken, that was ORBS.
Correct. A particularly interesting case, since ORBS' transit provider
was also a transit customer of Above.net. Said transit provider would
announce their /16s, of which ORBS sat in a /24 or two of, and have
their traffic blackholed.
IIRC they punched /24s via their other transit providers to partly
resolve the issue.
But the rest of the story - let's not go there.
