[103107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Kenyan Route Hijack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sun Mar 16 23:06:19 2008
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:04:09 -0400
To: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: glen.kent@gmail.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080315.232521.11538.0@webmail19.vgs.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On March 16, 2008 at 06:25 fergdawg@netzero.net (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
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> - -- "Glen Kent" <glen.kent@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >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?
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> Usually unintentional. See Pakistan Telecom for recent example.
Pakistan's blackhole was semi-unintentional, kind of like you tried to
shoot your spouse but the bullet went through the wall and
"unintentionally" hit a neighbor.
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