Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

Thu Jan 15 08:54:29 UTC 2009

On 14 Jan 2009, at 16:06, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> Simon Lockhart wrote:
>> (Yes, I'm in the minority that thinks that Randy hasn't done  
>> anything bad)
> Nah, I agree with Randy's experiment too. People should protect  
> their networks better and this is clearly showing that there are a  
> lot of vulnerable places in the core internet structure.

The end sometimes justifies the means, and someone in the research  
community discovering flaws in bgp implementation (software, protocol,  
or process - at the bgp stack, in my NOC tools, in the community's  
understanding) before hackers/spammers/fraudsters do, then I count  
that as a result.

Andy