[AusNOG] Urgent - Pacnet NOC contact (with BGP clue)

[Oliver Eyre]

So you're saying that the standard way of suspending a service is to 
hijack their prefixes by going more specific than anyone else, and that 
you're allowed to do this because you have a letter of authority 
permitting you to advertise their prefixes? Surely then the customer 
could withdraw this authority and you would have to cease advertisement?

Illegal or not, this practice seems to be half baked and just plain 
scum. What is the point of drawing in all that traffic if you're just 
going to sink it into null? What a waste of bits and CPU cycles! Surely 
it would be much faster and easier to simply turn their port off than 
fiddling around with filters and advertisements?

Disabling a service is one (completely understandable) thing, but what 
AINS has done in this circumstance seems to be with a certain degree of 
malice and not "just business" as you say. By all means disconnect a 
delinquent account, however it doesn't really seem like an acceptable 
excuse to waste the time of your customer's techs, their techs of their 
support agency, PacNet's techs, the AFP, APNIC and any other agencies 
that have been drawn into this mess.

Oliver

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