Hijacking of address blocks assigned to Trafalgar House Group, London UK

Sat Apr 12 23:18:53 UTC 2003

> Hello!
> 
> I've been asked to draw the attention of Network administrators to the
> recent hijacking of various large blocks of ARIN IP-space: particularly
> six /16 blocks allocated to the London-based Trafalgar House Group.
> 
> Trafalgar House Group (THG):
> Trafalgar House Group TRAF  (NET-144-176-0-0-1) 144.176.0.0/16
> Trafalgar House Group THIN1 (NET-144-177-0-0-1) 144.177.0.0/16
> Trafalgar House Group THIN3 (NET-144-179-0-0-1) 144.179.0.0/16
> Trafalgar House Group THIN4 (NET-144-180-0-0-1) 144.180.0.0/16
> Trafalgar House Group THIN5 (NET-144-181-0-0-1) 144.181.0.0/16
> Trafalgar House Group THIN2 (NET-158-181-0-0-1) 158.181.0.0/16

An example of why allocation boundary based prefix-filters are a good thing.