RE: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>]

At 11:32 PM 27-08-08 -0500, John Lee wrote:
> Thanks guys, going back to my Comer one more time. My issue, question was 
> whether the organization doing the hijacking controlled all of the routers 
> in the new modified path or only some of them?
>
> John (ISDN) Lee

They didn't have control of any routers other than their own.  What they 
had to find is a single clueless upstream ISP that would allow them to 
announce prefixes that didn't belong to them.

-Hank