[91843] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS 8437 announced a quarter of the net for half of an hour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Mon Aug 14 22:57:27 2006
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:56:58 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Josh Karlin <karlinjf@cs.unm.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <71051fe20608141236s13f9d2e7y34d8a48729b304b7@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:36:36PM -0600, Josh Karlin wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> Today (Aug 14th 2006) AS 8437 announced 63 /8 nets from 14:30 to 15:00
> UTC. I don't believe that this is normal, but please correct me if I
> am wrong.
Note they're all unallocated blocks, so probably someone's attempt at
bogon filtering got leaked inadvertently. Since they're all unallocated
blocks, it shouldn't have done any harm, and anyone with reasonably
intelligent routing policies should have blocked those routes anyways. :P
And may there be a special circle of hell reserved for the weenies who do
stupid unnecessary shit that breaks more than it fixes in the name of
security. :)
--
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
