[107227] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Aug 28 00:47:18 2008
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:45:57 +0300
To: John Lee <john@internetassociatesllc.com>,
"Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <53A6C7E936ED8544B1A2BC990D254F942BF6159B03@MEMEXG1.HOST.lo cal>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
At 11:32 PM 27-08-08 -0500, John Lee wrote:
>Thanks guys, going back to my Comer one more time. My issue, question was
>whether the organization doing the hijacking controlled all of the routers
>in the new modified path or only some of them?
>
>John (ISDN) Lee
They didn't have control of any routers other than their own. What they
had to find is a single clueless upstream ISP that would allow them to
announce prefixes that didn't belong to them.
-Hank
