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Subject: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
From: hank at efes.iucc.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:45:57 +0300
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At 11:32 PM 27-08-08 -0500, John Lee wrote:
>Thanks guys, going back to my Comer one more time. My issue, question was 
>whether the organization doing the hijacking controlled all of the routers 
>in the new modified path or only some of them?
>
>John (ISDN) Lee

They didn't have control of any routers other than their own.  What they 
had to find is a single clueless upstream ISP that would allow them to 
announce prefixes that didn't belong to them.

-Hank

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References:
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