[107237] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Aug 28 06:25:56 2008
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:55:49 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0808280357380.13815@linuxbox.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
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Most of the spammer acquired /16s have been
1. pre arin
2. caused by buying up assets of long defunct companies .. assets that
just happen to include a /16 nobody knew about
Not exactly hijacks this lot .. just like those "barely legal" teen mags.
srs
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
>
> People (especially spammers) have been hijacking networks for a while now,
> maybe now that we have a presentation to whore around, operators can
> pressure vendors and bosses.
>