[164886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Wed Aug 7 21:13:19 2013
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 20:12:14 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <9w1F1m0031Una3W01w1LTl>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/7/2013 2:58 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:07:04 -0700, Paul Ferguson said:
>
>> Having said that, there are quite a few documented cases of it being
>> done intentionally, and for nefarious purposes.
>
> Do I need ECC on my brain to stop the bitrot, or was there a kerfluffle a
> long ways back when somebody announced 127/8, and a surprising number of
> systems actually bit?
Seems like that might have been the first time I was annoying the Big
Net Operators about why they route unroutable traffic.
And a new annoying question: does it seem odd that the Big Net
Operator's Private Mailing List is answering such gut basic and old news
questions about how do I best destroy the Internet, should I wan t to do
that?
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