For us, it was annoying - we look for prefix hijackings or what appear to be. In this case it was a false alarm but one that consumed NOC resources to troubleshoot and resolve... later to find out it was an "academic test" and nothing was really going on.
Paul -----Original Message----- From: Christian Koch [mailto:christ...@broknrobot.com] Sent: January 12, 2009 5:34 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 <snip> > > ] part of the experiment is to measure the difference between the amount > ] of nanog mail lorenzo drew in 2005 by pre-announcing with the amount we > ] get in 2009 while not pre-announcing. :) > > This statement is an admission that he set out to annoy people, > annoy them enough they would complain on a public mailing list. > More over, I can't see how any researcher could use "the amount of > nanog mail" as a valid indicator of anything. It has as much to > do with how many engineers are bored on a given day as it does with > the severity of the problem. > > So the goal of this research seemed to be to see how many people > the researchers could panic, and then see how 10,000 people reacted > to the panic. Sounds a lot like yelling "fire" in a crowded movie > house just to "research" what the results might be, and then measuring > success by the number of words in the article on the front page of > the paper, or perhaps the number of people trampled to death, or > both. > maybe not so much annoy people, rather see how many people actually noticed the announcements and were aware that their AS was being used as an origin in the path ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and then destroy this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. Thank you."
