[164865] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Aug 7 05:03:56 2013
In-Reply-To: <20130807085857.GA7561@pob.ytti.fi>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 02:03:45 -0700
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2013-08-07 11:20 +0300), Martin T wrote:
>
>> on Internet? Has there been such situations in history? Isn't there a
>> method against such hijacking? Or have I misunderstood something and
>> this isn't possible?
>
> Certainly practical scenario, but in many cases not needed at all. In most
> cases upstream does not do any automatic prefix filter generation, it's
> maybe somewhat popular in mid-sized european shops but generally not too
> common.
>
> There is active on-going work to secure BGP and you may want to read up on
> 'RPKI' which is further along that track.
>
I hope it has better adoption than BCP38/BCP84. :-)
- ferg
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