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Re: AS 8437 announced a quarter of the net for half of an hour

  • From: Richard A Steenbergen
  • Date: Mon Aug 14 22:58:01 2006 
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:36:36PM -0600, Josh Karlin wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Today (Aug 14th 2006) AS 8437 announced 63 /8 nets from 14:30 to 15:00
> UTC.  I don't believe that this is normal, but please correct me if I
> am wrong.

Note they're all unallocated blocks, so probably someone's attempt at 
bogon filtering got leaked inadvertently. Since they're all unallocated 
blocks, it shouldn't have done any harm, and anyone with reasonably 
intelligent routing policies should have blocked those routes anyways. :P

And may there be a special circle of hell reserved for the weenies who do 
stupid unnecessary shit that breaks more than it fixes in the name of 
security. :)

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