[15429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bellovin sez...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Friskies)
Fri Feb 20 13:55:14 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:39:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Friskies <alex@sprint.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.980220092703.9433C-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
This has already happened about 50 times ;)
Alex
(i have no affiliation with anybody. Not even my parents)
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
> Here's a quote from this story
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980220S0001
>
> Both Bellovin and his AT&T colleague Matt Blaze cited the vulnerability
> of the Net's decentralized routing system, .... This routing
> information has been accidentally corrupted several times, they said,
> resulting in massive traffic flows being rerouted through single slow
> machines or blocked altogether.
>
> They said a hacker could also cause this kind of corruption.
>
> --
> Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
> http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
>
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