Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

On Feb 25, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Seriously -- a number of us have been warning that this
could happen.
> More precisely, we've been warning that this could
happen *again*; we
> all know about many older incidents, from the barely
noticed to the  
> very
> noisy.  (AS 7007, anyone?)  Something like S-BGP will
stop this cold.

As much as I love to make fun of Avi + Vinny, as7007 was not
really  
the problem, Sprint running custom cisco code which wouldn't
let go of  
prefixes after the router announcing them had been turned
off for more  
than an hour was.  Plus, problems which happened over 10
years ago is  
a bit far back in Internet time. 


> Yes, I know there are serious deployment and
operational issues.  The
> question is this: when is the pain from routing
incidents great enough
> that we're forced to act?  It would have been nice to
have done
> something before this, since now all the world's script
kiddies have
> seen what can be done.

I would argue the answer to your question is "not
yet", as we haven't  
done anything yet.

We can argue whether that is the "right" answer,
but it is still THE  
answer.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick