[107290] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Attack - Best Defense ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Fesler)
Fri Aug 29 18:17:40 2008
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:17:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com>
To: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080829142921.AE91480@resin13.mta.everyone.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> I am signed up for the Prefix Hijack Alert System
> (phas.netsec.colostate.edu) and would be alerted in about 6 hours (or
> less?) about a prefix announcement change.
Would the alerts go to a mail server behind said BGP prefixes?
Also, if you're gonna bother at all.. I'd humbly suggest that 6 hours is
too long to wait. Without naming names, consider if this response time is
adequate, and if not, look at some of the commercial options.