Absolutely - according to their website " No real or production prefixes or data packets are being harmed in this experiment. If you become aware that this experiment causes any actual real operational problem, please write to us immediately. " I have asked them to have some courtesy next time before wasting a lot of people's time... Paul -----Original Message----- From: Michienne Dixon [mailto:mdixon@nkc.org] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:20 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 The IAR was the source of my notice as well and is what started me down this path of cat herding. I would think that it would only be polite to notify people about what is going on so that other people do not waste their time looking for phantom issues. - Michienne Dixon Network Administrator liNKCity 312 Armour Rd. North Kansas City, MO 64116 www.linkcity.org <http://www.linkcity.org/> (816) 412-7990 ________________________________ From: karlinjf@gmail.com [mailto:karlinjf@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Josh Karlin Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:57 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: Majdi S. Abbas; Michienne Dixon; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 At some point 3130 announced these prefixes, and is now prepending other ASes to them. Pretty Good BGP (and hence the IAR) sees them as prefix hijacks. If you'd like to see the entire list of prefixes, check out: http://iar.cs.unm.edu/search.php and enter in 3130 as the "Victim AS" Josh On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Paul Stewart <pstewart@nexicomgroup.net> wrote: Same here.. got a notice this morning and while it's false, I still have no response from Randy neither on this matter... If they are going to involve our AS numbers and trigger alarms it would be nice to notify us first... especially on something as major as a prefix hijacking (potentially) Paul ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and then destroy this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. Thank you."