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The problem is not their distasteful use of IP addresses, but that they are committing the IP-address equivalent of identity theft: doing business under identif
by superuser2 11y ago
The problem is not their distasteful use of IP addresses, but that they are committing the IP-address equivalent of identity theft: doing business under identifiers which are not theirs.
BGP is a trusting protocol, with expectations enforced by social contract rather than cryptography. Part of the social contract among ISPs is that only competent, legitimate entities get to participate in BGP, and Verizon is violating that.
- jakeogh 11y ago"competent, legitimate entities" aka whatever that's decided to mean at the moment. BGP is trivially broken, but that's not what's happening here, and even if it was it's a proto flaw, not something that we should be "fixing" with more prior restraint. It's too easy to restrict people by 'fixing' a non-problem (junk mail from 'gangs' in this case).
- superuser2 11y agoIt is simply not your right advertise routes that aren't yours. Doing so intentionally is solid proof that you have no business participating in BGP, gang or not.