Re: Hijacked Network Ranges

[Tony McCrory <tony.mccrory () gmail com>]

Surely something is better than nothing.  Advertise the /24's and the
/25's, see what happens.

At the least it's a step forwards until you get their routes filtered.

Tony

On 31 January 2012 18:22, Kelvin Williams <kwilliams () altuscgi com> wrote:

> Upstream requirements. Additionally, I don't believe it would do us any
> good. If they're announcing /24 now, why would they not announce a /25.
> On Jan 31, 2012 1:19 PM, "Grant Ridder" <shortdudey123 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is keeping you from advertising a more specific route (i.e /25's)?
> >
> > -Grant
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Kelvin Williams <
> kwilliams () altuscgi com>wrote:
> > > Greetings all.
> > >
> > > We've been in a 12+ hour ordeal requesting that AS19181 (Cavecreek
> > > Internet
> > > Exchange) immediately filter out network blocks that are being
> advertised
> > > by ASAS33611 (SBJ Media, LLC) who provided to them a forged LOA.
> > >
> > > The routes for networks: 208.110.48.0/20, 63.246.112.0/20, and
> > > 68.66.112.0/20 are registered in various IRRs all as having an origin
> AS
> > > 11325 (ours), and are directly allocated to us.
> > >
> > > The malicious hijacking is being announced as /24s therefore making
> route
> > > selection pick them.
> > >
> > > Our customers and services have been impaired.  Does anyone have any
> > > contacts for anyone at Cavecreek that would actually take a look at
> ARINs
> > > WHOIS, and IRRs so the networks can be restored and our services back in
> > > operation?
> > >
> > > Additionally, does anyone have any suggestion for mitigating in the
> > > interim?  Since we can't announce as /25s and IRRs are apparently a pipe
> > > dream.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kelvin Williams
> > > Sr. Service Delivery Engineer
> > > Broadband & Carrier Services
> > > Altus Communications Group, Inc.
> > >
> > >
> > > "If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." --
> > > Abraham Maslow