[91844] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS 8437 announced a quarter of the net for half of an hour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Karlin)
Mon Aug 14 23:24:25 2006
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:23:55 -0600
From: "Josh Karlin" <karlinjf@cs.unm.edu>
To: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060815025658.GR12298@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Ah, I believe you're right. Thanks for clearing it up! I had looked
up a couple of the prefixes to see if they had owners and I thought I
had seen one, but I must have made a typo.
I like my swimming pool of lava thank you very much :p
Josh
On 8/14/06, Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> wrote:
> 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. :)
>
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