[nsp-sec] ARIN-REACHABILITY-TESTING

[David Freedman]

Reply from randy (not to me, to a colleague):

"good catch!  in 48 hours of running, you are the second person to notice. 
this is an intentional experiment.  your asn is in the path so the announcement does not
reach you. they're not your prefixes, but ours. so no prefixes are harmed in this experiment. :)"

Seems he may be trying to prove a point here.


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David Freedman
Group Network Engineering 
Claranet Limited
http://www.clara.net



-----Original Message-----
From: nsp-security-bounces at puck.nether.net on behalf of Bill Owens
Sent: Sun 1/11/2009 15:01
To: Hank Nussbacher
Cc: nsp-security at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp-sec] ARIN-REACHABILITY-TESTING
 
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:14:40AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
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> I had sent to Randy:
> "I don't know who is trying to hijack this block or why."
> 
> His reply was:
> "no one is.  new experiment."

Hmm. Unannounced advertisements using faked AS numbers in the origin strikes me as the sort of 'experiment' that Randy would decry if he just heard about it on NANOG, and certainly I have one customer who isn't particularly happy with this behavior. I can't say that I am either, on principle. 

But given that Randy isn't exactly my drinking buddy I don't know that he would react well to me complaining about it. I can try, but is anybody with more influence over him willing to try to explain the reasons why this might be seen as alarming and unwelcome in the community?

Bill.
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Bill Owens
Director, Advanced Technology and Networks
NYSERNet, Inc.


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