[107232] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Aug 28 02:12:03 2008
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:10:33 GMT
To: hank@efes.iucc.ac.il
Cc: john@internetassociatesllc.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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- -- Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> 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 the=
y =
had to find is a single clueless upstream ISP that would allow them to =
announce prefixes that didn't belong to them.
>
*bing*
Trust is the major exploit here. That has never been "new".
- - ferg
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