[110744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Thu Jan 15 03:54:39 2009
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:54:29 +0000
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On 14 Jan 2009, at 16:06, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Simon Lockhart wrote:
>> (Yes, I'm in the minority that thinks that Randy hasn't done
>> anything bad)
> Nah, I agree with Randy's experiment too. People should protect
> their networks better and this is clearly showing that there are a
> lot of vulnerable places in the core internet structure.
The end sometimes justifies the means, and someone in the research
community discovering flaws in bgp implementation (software, protocol,
or process - at the bgp stack, in my NOC tools, in the community's
understanding) before hackers/spammers/fraudsters do, then I count
that as a result.
Andy
