Re: Hijacked IP space.

[Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell () martin fl us>]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Brian Bruns wrote:

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> I've confirmed this behavior with several of the backbones.  Why are these
> backbones allowing their T1 customers to make these kind of announcements
> without any kind of authorization forms or simple checking to see if its a
> valid announcement for that customer?

Because confirming this isn't always trivial, and is easy to fake.
Most importantly because it hasn't been a major problem, unless you
consider william's ranting to be of operational impact.