AS4788 Telecom Malaysia major route leak?

Fri Jun 12 10:03:14 UTC 2015

These aren't just leaks - they're more specifics of what's normally 
advertised, but keeping the proper origin. Hard to see how that could be 
accidental...

Chris

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:09:34AM +0200,
> Tore Anderson <tore at fud.no> wrote
> a message of 10 lines which said:
>
>> I see tons of bogus routes show up with AS4788 in the path, and at
>> least AS3549 is acceping them.
>>
>> E.g. for the RIPE NCC (193.0.0.0/21):
>>
>>                     [BGP/170] 00:20:29, MED 1000, localpref 150
>>                       AS path: 3549 4788 12859 3333 I, validation-state: valid
>
> Unlike most BGP leaks, they kept the proper origin, so validation by ROA was
> useless :-(
>