Kenyan Route Hijack

Alastair Johnson aj at sneep.net
Sun Mar 16 11:49:52 UTC 2008


Kameron Gasso wrote:
> Christopher Morrow wrote:
>> I think it was Abovenet that blackholed a /24 of (I want to say MAPS,
>> but that's not right) an anti-spam-RBL sometime pre-1999?
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, that was ORBS.

Correct.  A particularly interesting case, since ORBS' transit provider 
was also a transit customer of Above.net.  Said transit provider would 
announce their /16s, of which ORBS sat in a /24 or two of, and have 
their traffic blackholed.

IIRC they punched /24s via their other transit providers to partly 
resolve the issue.

But the rest of the story - let's not go there.



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