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Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

  • From: Hank Nussbacher
  • Date: Tue Sep 23 00:32:47 2008

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Scott Weeks wrote:

I too spotted this via PHAS for a large number of prefixes, but have not received alerts from IAR, Watchmy.Net nor does RIPE RIS show this hijack: http://www.ris.ripe.net/perl-risapp/risearch.html I would have expected with so many RRC boxes that RIPE RIS would have caught it. I had thought it was a false positive from PHAS but now that you and others have seen it - I guess it is for real.

-Hank




I am hoping to confirm a short-duration prefix hijack of 72.234.0.0/15 (and another of our prefixes) by ASN 8997 ("OJSC North-West Telecom" in Russia) in using ASN 3267 (Russian Federal University Network) to advertise our space to ASN 3277 (Regional University and Scientific Network (RUSNet) of North-Western and Saint-Petersburg Area of Russia).


Is that what I'm seeing when I go to "bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay", put in prefix 72.234.0.0/15 and select the dates:

22/9/2008 9:00:00 and 22/9/2008 15:00:00

If so, am I understanding it correctly if I say ASN 3267 saw a shorter path from ASN 8997, so refused the proper announcement from ASN 36149 (me) it normally hears from ASN 174 (Cogent).

If the above two are correct, would it be correct to say only the downstream customers of ASN 3267 were affected?

scott