questions regarding prefix hijacking

Marsh Ray maray at microsoft.com
Wed Aug 7 20:59:40 UTC 2013


> From: Paul Ferguson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 3:07 AM
> Subject: Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking
> 
> Historically, most prefix hijacks have been accidental, generally due to
> configuration error -- for instance... 
> 
> Having said that, there are quite a few documented cases of it being done
> intentionally, and for nefarious purposes.

It would be incredibly useful for someone to start a page or a category on Wikipedia "List of Internet Routing and DNS Incidents" that would include both "accidental" and malicious events.

- Marsh





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