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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
I thought I'd toss in a few comments, considering it's my fault that few people are understanding this thing yet. >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gadi Evron <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> People (especially spammers) have been hijacking networks for a while I'd like to 'clear the air' here. Clearly, I failed at Defcon, WIRED, AFP, and Forbes. We all know sub-prefix hijacking is not news. What is news? Using as-path loop detection to selectively blackhole the hijacked route - which creates a transport path _back to_ the target. That's all it is, nothing more. All but the WIRED follow-up article missed this point *completely.* They over-represented the 'hijacking' aspects, while only making mention of the 'interception' potential. Lets end this thread with the point I had intended two weeks ago: we've presented a method by which all the theory spewed by academics can be actualized in a real network (the big-I internet) to effect interception of data between (nearly) arbitrary endpoints from (nearly) any edge or stub AS. That, I think, is interesting. -Tk
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