[106846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Thu Aug 14 23:32:07 2008
From: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080814190917.GI53528@puck.nether.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:30:32 -0600
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Aug 14, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> You're missing a step:
>
> janitor.
>
> No really, the reason for some leaks isn't because so-and-so was
> never a customer, they were. 5 years ago. nobody removed the
> routes from
> the IRR or AS-SET or <insert method here> and now the route is
> learned via
> some other location and it's bypassed your perimiter security and
> infiltrated your BGP.
I agree, how many of you folks that use IRRs have
ever deleted an IRR object? Heck, some ISPs even
add them based on existence of advertised routes.
-danny
