Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi> wrote:

> On (2013-08-07 11:20 +0300), Martin T wrote:
>
> > on Internet? Has there been such situations in history? Isn't there a
> > method against such hijacking? Or have I misunderstood something and
> > this isn't possible?
>
> Certainly practical scenario, but in many cases not needed at all. In most
> cases upstream does not do any automatic prefix filter generation, it's
> maybe somewhat popular in mid-sized european shops but generally not too
> common.
>
> There is active on-going work to secure BGP and you may want to read up on
> 'RPKI' which is further along that track.

I hope it has better adoption than BCP38/BCP84. :-)


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