Re: prefix hijack by ASN 8997

["Christian Koch" <christian () broknrobot com>]

I received a phas notification about this today as well...

I couldn't find any relevant data confirming the announcement of one
of my /19 blocks, until a few minutes ago when i checked the route
views bgplay (ripe bgplay turns up nothing) and can now see 8997
announcing and quickly withdrawing my prefix




On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer () mauigateway com> wrote:
> I am hoping to confirm a short-duration prefix hijack of 72.234.0.0/15 (and another of our prefixes) by ASN 8997 
> ("OJSC North-West Telecom" in Russia) in using ASN 3267 (Russian Federal University Network) to advertise our space 
> to ASN 3277 (Regional University and Scientific Network (RUSNet) of North-Western and Saint-Petersburg Area of 
> Russia).
>
> Is that what I'm seeing when I go to "bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay", put in prefix 72.234.0.0/15 and select the dates:
>
> 22/9/2008  9:00:00   and   22/9/2008  15:00:00
>
> If so, am I understanding it correctly if I say ASN 3267 saw a shorter path from ASN 8997, so refused the proper 
> announcement from ASN 36149 (me) it normally hears from ASN 174 (Cogent).
>
> If the above two are correct, would it be correct to say only the downstream customers of ASN 3267 were affected?
>
> scott