prefix hijack by ASN 8997

Tue Sep 23 04:34:40 UTC 2008

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Christian Koch wrote:

Strange that RIPE RIS search doesn't show it:
http://www.ris.ripe.net/perl-risapp/risearch.html
but yet you say BGPlay does show it.

-Hank

> I received a phas notification about this today as well...
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> I couldn't find any relevant data confirming the announcement of one
> of my /19 blocks, until a few minutes ago when i checked the route
> views bgplay (ripe bgplay turns up nothing) and can now see 8997
> announcing and quickly withdrawing my prefix
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
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>> I am hoping to confirm a short-duration prefix hijack of 72.234.0.0/15 (and another of our prefixes) by ASN 8997 ("OJSC North-West Telecom" in Russia) in using ASN 3267 (Russian Federal University Network) to advertise our space to ASN 3277 (Regional University and Scientific Network (RUSNet) of North-Western and Saint-Petersburg Area of Russia).
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>> Is that what I'm seeing when I go to "bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay", put in prefix 72.234.0.0/15 and select the dates:
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>> 22/9/2008  9:00:00   and   22/9/2008  15:00:00
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>> If so, am I understanding it correctly if I say ASN 3267 saw a shorter path from ASN 8997, so refused the proper announcement from ASN 36149 (me) it normally hears from ASN 174 (Cogent).
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>> If the above two are correct, would it be correct to say only the downstream customers of ASN 3267 were affected?
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>> scott
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