Re: someone is using my AS number

On 13 Jun 2019, at 10:06, Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> wrote:

1/ We can’t really expect on the loop detection to work that way at the “jacked” side. So if this is innocent traffic engineering, it is unreliable at best.

2/ Attribution. The moment you stuff AS 2914 anywhere in the path, we may get blamed for anything that happens through the IP addresses for that route. In a way the ASNs in the AS_PATH attribute an an inter-organizational escalation flowchart.

Good answer! Somebody should write that down. :-) Joe