The in-your-face hijacking example, was: Re: Who is announcing bogons?

Wed Apr 30 12:53:56 UTC 2003

--- "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris at UU.NET> wrote:
> That may be true, but what does a provider do when
> they are presented with
> written 'authority to use address space' from a
> customer? Certianly if the
> customer provides 'proper' documentation that the ip
> space is available
> for them to route, and that they have authority from
> the 'owner' to do
> this... what is an ISP to do? Aside from route the
> blocks?

When I worked for $LARGE_ISP and regularly updated
prefix-lists for BGP customers, I remember that we
would give smaller customers a harder time about
having permission to route new netblocks than we gave
big ones: the assumption was that the bug customers
would be ISPs, and could be providing backup transit
or some such, while small customers were assumed to be
enterprises which would only route their own space.

=====
David Barak
-fully RFC 1925 compliant-

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