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Re: Kenyan Route Hijack

  • From: Matt
  • Date: Sun Mar 16 05:43:00 2008

Did they provide a reason for the outage? If so, please let us know what the issue was.

Felix Bako wrote: 

Thank guyz for your Help.
Above.net finaly resolved the issue

Regards
Felix




Paul Ferguson wrote: 
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- -- "Glen Kent" <[email protected]> wrote:

If its done intentionally then it would only make sense if theres a
DOS attack coming from that address block, or if theres something
"blasphemous" put up there. If none of these, then why locally
blackhole traffic?


Usually unintentional. See Pakistan Telecom for recent example.

- - ferg

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