Re: Indonesian ISP Moratel announces Google's prefixes

[David Miller <dmiller () tiggee com>]

On 11/7/2012 5:05 AM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> OK one quick question here - Moratel leaked route and thus for a portion of
> internet route to Google was via Moratel but was a path. What caused 100%
> outage I.e all four authoritative DNS servers and open resolver service too
> ?  Can we just guess that due to ultra high traffic path between Moratel
> and Google was checked ?
>
> Or there's a chance that some customer of Moratel announced prefix using
> Google's ASN at first place. Hard to believe why they would have set bgp
> session in first place with wrong asn but was curious to know if that is
> also a possibility?


Possible?  Yes.

Probable?  No.

Refer to:
Hanlon's Razor
and
Occam's Razor

-DMM

>  Thanks
>
> (Sent from my mobile device)
>
> Anurag Bhatia
> http://anuragbhatia.com
> On Nov 7, 2012 12:22 PM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 07, 2012, at 01:29 , Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com> wrote:
> >
> > > Apologize for calling it an prefix hijack. I misunderstood in start.
> > Clearly it was case of prefix leaking.
> >
> > No worries.  I should have read more closely.
> >
> > --
> > TTFN,
> > patrick