[139225] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Wed Mar 30 18:24:03 2011
To: "Jim Gonzalez" <jim@impactbusiness.com>
In-Reply-To: <002201cbef24$c1b61d70$45225850$@com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:23:09 -0700
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <002201cbef24$c1b61d70$45225850$@com>, you wrote:
>I don't believe any one monitors this system and I
>would imagine if no one complains about this company advertising hijacked
>routes to level 3 then it would be quite easy to advertise a network that
>has been abandon(sic).
At this point, I do believe that you are stating the obvious.
Whether it is wise, or otherwise, to leave one's company's route announcements
entirely on autopilot is, I think, a remaining question.
The evidence would seem to suggest not.
But then again, as I think we all know, there is a non-zero costs associated
with doing anything well, professionally, or (as the laywers like to say)
in a "workman-like manner", and these costs are often seen as being at odds
with the corporate bottom line.
Personally, I just hope that Level3 accrues a sufficient quantity of bad
PR from what they have done here so that they will lose a client or two,
and that this in turn might have some salutary effect upon the corporate
calculus.
Regards,
rfg
