Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

["Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE" <lb () 6by7 net>]

This will break the internet at scale. No.

Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
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> On Aug 9, 2021, at 5:20 PM, Robert McKay <robert () mckay com> wrote:
>
> On 2021-08-09 22:39, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> > man. 9. aug. 2021 22.13 skrev Grzegorz Janoszka
> > <grzegorz () janoszka pl>:
> > > > On 2021-08-09 17:47, Billy Croan wrote:
> > > > > How does the community feel about using /24 originations in BGP as
> > > a
> > > > tactical advantage against potential bgp hijackers?
> > > RPKI is more effective than a competing /24. Unless they hijack you
> > > ASn
> > > as well.
> > You will usually get an as path length advantage even if they do
> > hijack your asn.
>
> Unless your RPKI is set to allow /24 but you normally advertise /21 or something shorter.. then RPKI works to the 
> hijacker's advantage.
>
> You could argue this is no different than before RPKI which is true.. except that now that RPKI exists people are 
> tempted to use it to automate configuration and take humans out of the loop.
>
> I imagine there are quite a few RPKI enabled prefixes (those configured to allow too long advertisements) that are 
> easier to hijack now than they were before RPKI existed.
>
> -Rob