Indonesian ISP Moratel announces Google's prefixes

Wed Nov 7 10:42:22 UTC 2012

On 11/7/2012 5:05 AM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> OK one quick question here - Moratel leaked route and thus for a portion of
> internet route to Google was via Moratel but was a path. What caused 100%
> outage I.e all four authoritative DNS servers and open resolver service too
> ?  Can we just guess that due to ultra high traffic path between Moratel
> and Google was checked ?
> 
> Or there's a chance that some customer of Moratel announced prefix using
> Google's ASN at first place. Hard to believe why they would have set bgp
> session in first place with wrong asn but was curious to know if that is
> also a possibility?

Possible?  Yes.

Probable?  No.

Refer to:
Hanlon's Razor
and
Occam's Razor

-DMM

> 
>  Thanks
> 
> (Sent from my mobile device)
> 
> Anurag Bhatia
> http://anuragbhatia.com
> On Nov 7, 2012 12:22 PM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 07, 2012, at 01:29 , Anurag Bhatia <me at anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Apologize for calling it an prefix hijack. I misunderstood in start.
>> Clearly it was case of prefix leaking.
>>
>> No worries.  I should have read more closely.
>>
>> --
>> TTFN,
>> patrick
>>
>>