17 Mar
2008
17 Mar
'08
8:31 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com> wrote:
Do ISPs (PTA, AboveNet, etc) that "unintentionally" hijack someone else IP address space, ever get penalized in *any* form? Depending upon whom and what they hijack, and who all get affected, it sure can
PTA's ASN actually did get disconnected for several hours by PCCW (which was leaking the youtube prefixes that PTA announced, and which shut off all of PTA's ASN rather than just filtering out the bogus announcements) Though, I am not too convinced that wasnt simply laziness at PCCW rather than a desire to punish PTA Nobody's blackholed abovenet yet that I know of. And if they did do that, they'd feel the effects real soon. --srs