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Re: question about bogon prefix

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Mon Jun 9 23:14:50 2014

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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 23:14:42 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Song Li <refresh.lsong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I found many ISP announced bogon prefix, for example:

sad, right?

> OriginAS Announcement Description
> AS7018  172.116.0.0/24  unallocated
> AS209   209.193.112.0/20 unallocated
>
> my question is why the tier1 and other ISP announce these unallocated bogon

OSS is hard.

> prefixes, and another interesting question is:
>
> If I am ISP, can I announce the same bogon prefix(172.116.0.0/24) with
> AS7018 announced? Will this result in prefix hijacking?
>

technically you are probably hijacking a hijack :( or something like that.

> Thanks!
>
> --
> Song Li
> Room 4-204, FIT Building,
> Network Security,
> Department of Electronic Engineering,
> Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
> Tel:( +86) 010-62446440
> E-mail: refresh.lsong@gmail.com

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