[106904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Smith)
Sat Aug 16 11:28:39 2008
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:28:26 -0700
From: Michael Smith <mksmith@adhost.com>
To: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <31B6767F-E4D1-46BC-9F92-73B40AFA87DD@tcb.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>>
>> 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
>
Even better, how many have tried to get another provider to remove legacy
objects from days gone by when someone was adding objects on your behalf? I
have objects that date back to 1998 that are completely bogus and I can't do
squat about it.
Mike
