[132653] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Watson)
Mon Nov 29 23:46:13 2010
From: Brett Watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101117164514.GA2251@tico.tsc.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:45:10 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 17, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Bob Poortinga wrote:
> My concern is that this "report" will be presented to the US Congress =
without
> being refuted by experts in the know.
>=20
> My request is that someone with some gravitas please issue a press =
release
> setting the facts straight on this matter. I have been in contact =
with Dan
> Goodin at The Register but I'm just a lowly grunt with a small =
network.
At the very least you might want to review:
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/11/chinas-18-minute-mystery.shtml
Renesys provides one data point but there are others that clearly show =
traffic routed *through* China (meaning they did indeed =
originate/hijack, and then pass data on to the original destination).
Just because there are people in the know (or with gravitas) that don't =
post on nanog doesn't mean it didn't happen.
-b=
