[132790] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Dec 1 15:29:08 2010
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:28:52 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Brett Watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
In-Reply-To: <7CA63A8B-3687-4417-A586-46A7EB658AD6@the-watsons.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> 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).
as usual i see no traffic measurements in the renesys note. i see
inference of traffic based on some control plane measurements. and, has
been shown, such inferences are highly suspect.
randy