[64901] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hijacked IP space.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Maxwell)
Tue Nov 4 11:08:05 2003
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:42:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
To: Brian Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <011c01c3a2ea$16daf080$49904843@2mbit.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Brian Bruns wrote:
[snip]
> I've confirmed this behavior with several of the backbones. Why are these
> backbones allowing their T1 customers to make these kind of announcements
> without any kind of authorization forms or simple checking to see if its a
> valid announcement for that customer?
Because confirming this isn't always trivial, and is easy to fake.
Most importantly because it hasn't been a major problem, unless you
consider william's ranting to be of operational impact.
