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Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jan 12 17:47:31 2009

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:47:18 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Paul Stewart <pstewart@nexicomgroup.net>
In-Reply-To: <89D27DE3375BB6428DDCC2927489826A01E70790@nexus.nexicomgroup.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 09.01.13 07:42, Paul Stewart wrote:
> For us, it was annoying - we look for prefix hijackings or what appear
> to be.

i think herein lies the rub.  it is not prefix hijacking and in no way 
should it appear that way to you.  i suggest tuning your detectors.  i 
am told that path poisoning is used (futilely, we hope to show) in day 
to day ops by folk to try to avert dos attacks.

randy


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