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Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked
From: Brett Watson <brett () the-watsons org>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:42:27 -0700
On Dec 1, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
sometimes I love to pull your chain... :) I agree though that folks won't publish this data (in general) directly, for whatever reason. Also, right '15% of traffic' really should have been '15% of routes*'
Agreed, I should have been more clear. I wasn't implying that much traffic either, but rather "15% of global prefixes." I was more focused on, "Seems clear enough that traffic *transited* China ASNs, as opposed to being blackholed as we seen in many hijacks. Further, in hopes of generating discussion... I've seen a lot of comments along the lines of "this was likely an accident, misconfiguration, or fat-finger..." I'm having a really hard time figuring how, if traffic not only diverted to China but *transited* China, this could be any kind of mistake. I'm not able to get my fingers or thumbs to randomly (seemingly) select approximately 15% of all prefixes, originate those, modify filters so I can do so, and also somehow divert it to another router that doesn't have the hijacked prefixes I'm announcing but rather forwards the source traffic on to it's intended destination. I can't seem to work all of that out into any kind of "accident." Anyone? -b
Current thread:
- Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked Randy Bush (Dec 01)
- Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked Marshall Eubanks (Dec 01)
- Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked Christopher Morrow (Dec 01)
- Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked Randy Bush (Dec 01)
- Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked Christopher Morrow (Dec 01)
- Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked Brett Watson (Dec 01)
- Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked James Hess (Dec 02)
- Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked Jeremy L. Gaddis (Dec 02)
- Re: FUD: 15% of world's internet traffic hijacked Randy Bush (Dec 01)