Saku,
> 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. What do you mean? In most cases upstreams do not filter prefixes at all? > There is active on-going work to secure BGP and you may want to read up on > 'RPKI' which is further along that track. Thanks for mentioning this! Very interesting effort. I validated some routes in LIR portal, verified that those are validated using RIPE rpki-validator tool and a Juniper router connected to validator: r...@lr1.ham1.de> show validation session detail Session 195.13.63.18, State: up, Session index: 2 Group: eurotransit-testbed, Preference: 100 Local IPv4 address: 193.34.50.25, Port: 8282 Refresh time: 120s Hold time: 180s Record Life time: 3600s Serial (Full Update): 559 Serial (Incremental Update): 559 Session flaps: 0 Session uptime: 00:11:35 Last PDU received: 00:00:27 IPv4 prefix count: 4921 IPv6 prefix count: 833 r...@lr1.ham1.de> show route protocol bgp 5.11.81.0 inet.0: 456407 destinations, 456408 routes (456407 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden) + = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both 5.11.81.0/24 *[BGP/170] 00:11:59, localpref 110, from 79.141.168.1 AS path: 33926 25577 43532 I, validation-state: valid > to 193.34.50.1 via em0.0 RPKI-valid.inet.0: 11440 destinations, 11440 routes (11440 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden) + = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both 5.11.81.0/24 *[BGP/170] 00:11:11, localpref 110, from 79.141.168.1 AS path: 33926 25577 43532 I, validation-state: valid > to 193.34.50.1 via em0.0 r...@lr1.ham1.de> Massimiliano, Paul, Indra: thanks for pointing out those interesting cases! regards, Martin 2013/8/8, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3...@gmail.com>: > They do happen, but they get little publicity. People that I've talked to > about this say, for reasons mostly unspecified, they'd rather not talk > about it. > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Christopher Morrow > <morrowc.li...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Marsh Ray <ma...@microsoft.com> wrote: >> > >> > It would be incredibly useful for someone to start a page or a category >> on Wikipedia "List of Internet Routing and DNS Incidents" that would >> include both "accidental" and malicious events. >> > >> >> do we really need that? they seem to occur often enough that that >> isn't really required :( >> >> > > > -- > -- > ========================= > Carlos M. Martinez-Cagnazzo > h <http://cagnazzo.name>ttp://cagnazzo.me > ========================= >