RE: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

* Boyd, Benjamin R · * Thu Aug 28 11:36:18 2008

We've encountered the same diligence with LVL3, especially after
acquisitions where records haven't been updated yet.  Although a little
annoying it's quite refreshing.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Spaeth [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:41 AM
>To: Jon Lewis; [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
>
>Jon Lewis wrote:
>>> At 11:32 PM 27-08-08 -0500, John Lee wrote:
>>>
>>> They didn't have control of any routers other than their own.  What 
>>> they had to find is a single clueless upstream ISP that would allow 
>>> them to announce prefixes that didn't belong to them.
>>
>> Clueless or big and inattentive?  AFAIK, Level3 will accept anything 
>> from me...as long as I put it in one of the IRRs the day 
>before I plan 
>> to announce it.
>
>Working for a company that has been steadily growing through 
>acquisition, we have actually run into this problem a couple times 
>before.   I'm not sure if we hit the lottery, but our upstream 
>providers 
>(including LVL3) have definitely intervened when we've moved 
>netblocks from a company that doesn't match our name into our 
>facilities to be advertised under our ASNs.  I'm not sure how 
>diligent or widespread the validation checks are, but at least 
>on occasion they do occur.
>
>-Eric
>
>
>

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