North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: YouTube IP Hijacking
Randy Epstein wrote: > My point was that even with a license, accidents still occur. My point is that without a license more accidents will occur. > Vendors currently do train their customers and certify them. A lot of companies dont send their personel to training lessons because of the costs. The vendor primarily trains how to _implement_ a BGP policy on their equipment and not neccessarily how to develop a good peering and filter policy. The "youtube ip hijacking" case _may_ be a result of route redistribution from an internal routing protocol to BGP without any route filters applied. Every decent BGP engineer knows that this is a very bad idea. > LIRs don't and > cannot know all the gear out there and configurations from network to > network vary. They dont need to. They could/should ensure that people running ASNs have a good knowledge about how BGP works. Not how to _implement_ a BGP policy on a vendor device. This truly is up to the vendors and ISPs. > This doesn't stop route leaks, nor would this protect us from > intentional mischief. True, but it will help reducing incidents which will have a huge impact on the live and economy of a lot of people. The "youtube IP hijacking" was only a minor nuisance in relation to what can happen if other prefixes are "hijacked" or just leak due to clueless personal. -- Arnd
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