[191390] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Defensive" BGP hijacking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Mon Sep 12 14:43:52 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:43:48 +0000
In-Reply-To: <17913CE4-3F88-4ABE-B73F-F5E3F28C6C2D@arin.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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