[107228] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Aug 28 01:20:03 2008
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:18:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20080828074407.00b243f0@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> 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.
Clueless or big and inattentive? AFAIK, Level3 will accept anything from
me...as long as I put it in one of the IRRs the day before I plan to
announce it.
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