On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:55:12PM -0500, Mark Mentovai wrote:
Sean Donelan wrote:
Is this the only thing which will get major carrier's attention. It would be great if carriers could be trusted to correctly verify IP addresses before announcing them. But as we've seen in the long-distance world, too many carriers act as if they can get an extra buck, they'll do what every they need to do.
The drive to "slam" is pushed by dollars. I can't think of any situation in which someone might profit from announcing address space without authorization. The problems facing the Internet are mostly due to laziness and lack of clue, enabled by an experimental infrastructure designed to support neither of these things. IP assumes non-hostile, non-lazy, and non-clueless nodes.
With respect to "converting customers", no its not going to happen. The technology operates differently. However, there have been instances where a company just started using a block of reserved IP space (squatting) hoping that, after a while, if it wasn't noticed, the courts would decide that its really theirs. In this case, I think the various *NICs should inject reserved space into the routing table such that things like this can't happen. I can see various fines resulting from this type of abuse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Bouchard [Immagine Your ] web@typo.org [Company Name Here] Network Engineer http://www.typo.org/~web/resume.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------