On Sep 25, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:

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Well, a prefix hijack either means a router has been pwned, as I suggested, or a router is (as Governor Tarkin put it) "far too trusting" of its peers.

And anyhow, I was speaking of BGP flaps in the context of botnets - has anybody seen an in-the-wild botnet that played BGP games?

No, but playing some BGP games could certainly help to *mitigate* them. Turn the C&C list into a community. I've thrown the idea around several times but can't get any takers...

been there, tried that: http://www.mainnerve.com/security/darknet.html -b