Re: Prefix hijacking by AS20115

[Josh Luthman <josh () imaginenetworksllc com>]

Start announcing their prefixes?

Josh Luthman
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On Sep 28, 2015 11:09 PM, "Seth Mattinen" <sethm () rollernet us> wrote:

> On 9/28/15 18:30, William Herrin wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I've got a problem where AS20115 continues to announce prefixes after BGP
> > > neighbors were shutdown. They claim it's a wedged BGP process but aren't
> > > in
> > > any hurry to fix it outside of a maintenance window.
> >
> > If they weren't lying to you, they'd fix it now. That's not the kind
> > of problem that waits.
> >
> > Thing is: they lied to you. Long ago they "helpfully" programmed their
> > router to announce your route regardless of whether you sent a route
> > to them. They want to wait for a maintenance window to remove that
> > configuration.
> >
> >
> > I'm at a loss of what else I can do. They admit the problem but won't take
> > > action saying it needs to wait for a maintenance window. Am I out of line
> > > insisting that's an unacceptable response to a problem that results in
> > > prefix/traffic hijacking?
> >
> > Try dropping the link entirely. If they still announce your addresses,
> > bring it back up but report it as emergency down, escalate, and call
> > back every 10 minutes until the junior tech understands that it's time
> > to call and wake up the guy who makes the decision to fix it now.
>
> I'm at the tail end here almost 8 hours later since the hijacking started.
> Their NOC is just blowing me off now and they're happy to continue the
> hijacking until it's convenient for them to have a maintenance window. And
> that's apparently the final decision.
>
> ~Seth