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Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 03:07:04 -0700
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Martin T <m4rtntns () gmail com> wrote:
Ok. And such attacks have happened in the past? For example one could do a pretty widespread damage for at least short period of time if it announces for example some of the root DNS server prefixes(as long prefixes as possible) to it's upstream provider and as upstream provider probably prefers client traffic over it's peerings or upstreams, it will prefer those routes by malicious ISP for all the traffic to root DNS servers?
Historically, most prefix hijacks have been accidental, generally due to configuration error -- for instance: http://www.renesys.com/2008/02/pakistan-hijacks-youtube-1/ Having said that, there are quite a few documented cases of it being done intentionally, and for nefarious purposes. - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
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- questions regarding prefix hijacking Martin T (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Paul Ferguson (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Martin T (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Massimiliano Stucchi (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Paul Ferguson (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 07)
- RE: questions regarding prefix hijacking Marsh Ray (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Christopher Morrow (Aug 07)
- RE: questions regarding prefix hijacking Marsh Ray (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Alexander Neilson (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Mark Andrews (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo (Aug 08)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Martin T (Aug 08)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Saku Ytti (Aug 08)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Martin T (Aug 07)
- Re: questions regarding prefix hijacking Paul Ferguson (Aug 07)
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