[58065] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The in-your-face hijacking example, was: Re: Who is
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Apr 30 06:11:50 2003
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:08:11 +0200
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0304300608050.16800-100000@rampart.argfrp.us
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At 06:09 AM 30-04-03 +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>That may be true, but what does a provider do when they are presented with
>written 'authority to use address space' from a customer? Certianly if the
>customer provides 'proper' documentation that the ip space is available
>for them to route, and that they have authority from the 'owner' to do
>this... what is an ISP to do? Aside from route the blocks?
Just had a case today where a downstream "clueless" tier-4 ISP got a new
customer. The "clueless" customer wants his /24 to be announced. We asked
for proof of ownership. Clueless customer sends official letter to
clueless tier-4 ISP, who tells us "route it now!" We do a check in APNIC
and see it is part of a larger /19 assigned to someone else (probably
clueless's customer former upstream ISP). We told clueless tier-4 ISP that
we can't announce the /24. I am now waiting for an email stating "but
Bulbul ISP never checked APNIC, so why should you?"
These battles are won slowly and one at a time.
-Hank
