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Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Mar 31 00:19:31 2011
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.1103302329100.312@cevin-2.local>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:49:25 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Its also a procedure that does need some due diligence done on it, to
avoid attacks where a SP's netblock is stolen when its actively routed
rather than abandoned.
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> What makes you think it was blind? =C2=A0The standard industry practice i=
s to ask
> someone requesting to announce a route for a letter on the owner's letter
> head authorizing the announcement. =C2=A0Is it really that hard to invent=
some
> letterhead and sign a letter?
>
> It's probably one of the easiest to circumvent "security" procedures ever=
.
>
> Frankly it's a giant waste of time and does nothing other than frustrate
> legitimate work.
>
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
