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And nothing will change. At least not until someone does this with malicious intent - script kiddie A knocks out big site, or a censoring state decides that it

by lini 14y ago

And nothing will change. At least not until someone does this with malicious intent - script kiddie A knocks out big site, or a censoring state decides that it should block a free speech site from the entire Internet.

forgotusername 14y ago
Evil routing has been employed a whole bunch of times going back decades, most visibly a couple of years ago when IIRC Iran (?) started advertising bad routes for a bunch of big sites, including Google
- apawloski 14y ago
  Pakistan null routed YouTube and accidentally took a big chunk down around the world in 2007.
- noselasd 14y ago
  I can't find much information about Iran advertising bad routed, but China did: http://bgpmon.net/?p=282 http://bgpmon.net/?p=282
pilom 14y ago
A much more useful thing to do than take out a big site is use BGP to create your own "section of the internet" to do your malicious deeds from, then afterwards remove the BGP routes and your addresses will no longer exist on the internet. So it will be as if you sent packets from a phantom network.
- dsl 14y ago
  Thats why many people have been archiving every advertised route going back to the mid-90's. http://archive.routeviews.org/oix-route-views/ http://archive.routeviews.org/oix-route-views/ http://www.pch.net/resources/data.php?dir=/routing-tables http://www.pch.net/resources/data.php?dir=/routing-tables (link appears to be temporarily broken)
stephen_g 14y ago
Script kiddies generally do not have access to edge routers though...