On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > On (2013-08-07 11:20 +0300), Martin T wrote: > >> on Internet? Has there been such situations in history? Isn't there a >> method against such hijacking? Or have I misunderstood something and >> this isn't possible? > > Certainly practical scenario, but in many cases not needed at all. In most > cases upstream does not do any automatic prefix filter generation, it's > maybe somewhat popular in mid-sized european shops but generally not too > common. > > There is active on-going work to secure BGP and you may want to read up on > 'RPKI' which is further along that track. >
I hope it has better adoption than BCP38/BCP84. :-) - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson fergdawgster(at)gmail.com