Indonesian ISP Moratel announces Google's prefixes

Wed Nov 7 05:07:47 UTC 2012

Where did you get the idea that a Moratel customer announced a google-owned
prefix to Moratel and Moratel did not have the proper filters in place?
according to the blog, all google's 4 authoritative DNS server networks and
8.8.8.0/24 were wrongly routed to Moratel, what's the possiblity for a
Moratel customers announce all those prefixes?

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net>wrote:

> On Nov 06, 2012, at 23:48 , Jian Gu <guxiaojian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What do you mean hijack? Google is peering with Moratel, if Google does
> not
> > want Moratel to advertise its routes to Moratel's peers/upstreams, then
> > Google should've set the correct BGP attributes in the first place.
>
> That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.
>
> If a Moratel customer announced a Google-owned prefix to Moratel, and
> Moratel did not have the proper filters in place, there is nothing Google
> could do to stop the hijack from happening.
>
> Exactly what attribute do you think would stop this?
>
> --
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
>
> > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Anurag Bhatia <me at anuragbhatia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Another case of route hijack -
> >>
> http://blog.cloudflare.com/why-google-went-offline-today-and-a-bit-about
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I am curious if big networks have any pre-defined filters for big
> content
> >> providers like Google to avoid these? I am sure internet community
> would be
> >> working in direction to somehow prevent these issues. Curious to know
> >> developments so far.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
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