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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Antkowiak)
Fri Dec 14 13:17:35 2012
In-Reply-To: <32936126.38747.1355507815632.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:17:24 -0600
From: Joe Antkowiak <antkojm1@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> Quite so: UMD: Where will the old IP route after the 6 month period is
> complete? Somewhere safe?
>
> In point of fact, ISTM that there *is no way* to make this completely safe;
> granted that it's a low percentage attack, and thus probably not useful
> to actual attackers, but the possibility exists that someone could hijack
> that block at a provider level, and provide their own replacement for that
> old server IP.
>
This is an extremely good point... Where will the former addresses be
going after this?
I'm sure someone's thought about that though...I hope.
