[AusNOG] Hostile act by an Australian ISP

[James Paussa]

Depending on the size of the subnets you could always try advertising more
specific routes than the hostile ISP, of course if they are on this list
they might cotton onto it. ;)

-James.

On Fri, November 12, 2010 12:17 pm, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> 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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