[149472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hijacked Network Ranges
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sun Feb 5 23:27:40 2012
In-Reply-To: <201202061219.47007.mtinka@globaltransit.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:56:51 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: mtinka@globaltransit.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I had this happen to me in 2008 -
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/110097
Total pain in the ass when it does happen. Funnily enough in that
case it was another downstream of the same ISP who was pulling this
stunt ..
--srs
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Mark Tinka <mtinka@globaltransit.net> wrote:
>
>
> The fact that the hijacking ISP's upstreams accepted routes
> through their network that didn't belong to that ISP is bad
> enough.
>
> That we should still be able to advertise anything without
> an appropriate filter being in place and expecting it to
> work (even if it's with good intention, as in this case) is
> equally as bad.
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
