North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Using unallocated address space - for DoS?
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:47:15PM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote: > Unfortunately this is not a unique occurance. Cable&Wireless, Sprint, > AT&T and UUNET have all had portions of their service knocked off the > Internet for various periods of time due to bogus announcements. Until > other ISPs fix their policies, I can knock your network off most of the > Internet, and there is nothing you can do to prevent it. I hope this is a remote possibility, but what are the chances of someone malicious breaking into the "right" router and blackholing the worst possible networks? If this is done, how long till it can be remedied? -- http://www.internet.org.ph The Philippine Internet Resource Mobile Voice/Messaging: +63-917-810-9728
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