[58058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The in-your-face hijacking example, was: Re: Who is announcing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Wed Apr 30 00:07:17 2003
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:05:04 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>,
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, "kai@pac-rim.net" <kai@pac-rim.net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030429231740.GQ41027@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Back in the day when we had InterNAP transit, I can attest that they were
filtered at _least_ by prefix, by mostly all of the folks who they
acquired transit from.
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:04:28PM -0500, Jack Bates wrote:
> >
> > InterNAP. They are large enough that their transits usually don't filter
> > them, yet they have had several problems in the past with their
> > customers and not validating the information they've been given. It's
> > even possible that InterNAP is filtering but took Thorn's word for it.
> > I'm unfamiliar with 12124's history.
>
> Inap is filtered by almost every one of their transits, both manually and
> with IRR entries. In fact, cleaning up all the IRR entry mess created by
> proxy registered routes from inap and their transits can be a full time
> job.
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