[15432] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bellovin sez...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abha Ahuja)
Fri Feb 20 15:17:23 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:40:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Abha Ahuja <ahuja@merit.edu>
To: Eric Sobocinski <sobo@merit.edu>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199802201931.OAA21025@merit.edu>
jumping in with a plug that the IRR and the route servers could help
facilitate this.... *grin*
-abha <ducking behind eric so he gets hit first..>
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Eric Sobocinski wrote:
> They could, that is, unless everyone to whom the hacker attached was
> doing ingress BGP filtering for all peers/downstreams. I'm sure my
> Merit RA comrades would be glad to jump in with a plug that IRR and
> route servers could help facilitate this, as would the varied groups
> that are working on authenticating network allocations of incoming
> routes. But that of course was your point. :-)
>
> --eric <ducking in case he started a religious war>
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 at 09:29 PST, Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> 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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