ISP's who where affected by the misconfiguration: start using IRR and checking your BGP updates (Was: YouTube IP Hijacking)

Mon Feb 25 07:25:05 UTC 2008

At 12:13 AM 25-02-08 +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

>For us who actually have customers we care about, we probably find it 
>better for business to try to make sure our own customers can't announce 
>prefixes they don't own, but accept basically anything from the world that 
>isn't ours.

You are a distinct minority.  My experience has shown that most ISPs don't 
give a sh*t about filtering what their customers can announce so what has 
happened, will continue to happen.

-Hank