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Re: Kenyan Route Hijack

  • From: Barry Shein
  • Date: Sun Mar 16 23:07:00 2008 
On March 16, 2008 at 06:25 [email protected] (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
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 > - -- "Glen Kent" <[email protected]> wrote:
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 > >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.

Pakistan's blackhole was semi-unintentional, kind of like you tried to
shoot your spouse but the bullet went through the wall and
"unintentionally" hit a neighbor.

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        -Barry Shein

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