[164880] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: questions regarding prefix hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marsh Ray)
Wed Aug 7 17:48:00 2013
From: Marsh Ray <maray@microsoft.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 21:47:26 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLabVyTWbHiBEfVyQOc++VDPeiEPk65K3fuaopNSJ-12d5Q@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> From: Christopher Morrow
> Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 2:06 PM
>=20
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Marsh Ray <maray@microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > It would be incredibly useful for someone to start a page or a category=
on
> Wikipedia "List of Internet Routing and DNS Incidents" that would include
> both "accidental" and malicious events.
>=20
> do we really need that?
Have you ever heard of someone using IP addresses as an access control mech=
anism? (AKA, "IP whitelist")
When I hear about this, I would really *love* to be able to link them to a =
credible source.
> they seem to occur often enough that that isn't really required :(
*I* believe you, but in practice that's not sufficient to convince many oth=
er folks.
Currently, a section of a page on Wikipedia lists 7 incidents going back to=
1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking#Public_incidents
Serious question: Do folks here feel that is an accurate representation of =
this phenomenon in practice?
- Marsh
