Kenyan Route Hijack
Barry Shein
bzs at world.std.com
Mon Mar 17 03:04:09 UTC 2008
On March 16, 2008 at 06:25 fergdawg at netzero.net (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
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> - -- "Glen Kent" <glen.kent at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >If its done intentionally then it would only make sense if theres a
> >DOS attack coming from that address block, or if theres something
> >"blasphemous" put up there. If none of these, then why locally
> >blackhole traffic?
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> Usually unintentional. See Pakistan Telecom for recent example.
Pakistan's blackhole was semi-unintentional, kind of like you tried to
shoot your spouse but the bullet went through the wall and
"unintentionally" hit a neighbor.
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-Barry Shein
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