[AusNOG] Hostile act by an Australian ISP

[Skeeve Stevens]

Ok briefly,

A customer of ours is multi-homed.

There has been a breakdown in the relationship with one of their suppliers due to a billing dispute and their interconnection has been shut down.

This I do not have a problem with - its up to them to resolve it.

But, due to my customer having another upstream, this supplier is announcing some of my customers ranges into their upstream (Pacnet) and Pipe peering - essentially poisoning their routing and damage their ability to function. 

The supplier never previously announced the ranges as they were announced by my customers routers, so they've maliciously started announcing them.

This, in my opinion is equivalent to denial-of-service due to a commercial dispute.

My next steps are to contact their upstreams and inform them the provider does not have the permission to announce these ranges and to please stop them announcing them.  I will then contact Pipe to have them do the same.

Anyone have any other ideas?

...Skeeve
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