[AusNOG] "How China diverts, then spies on Australia's internet traffic"

[Mark Prior]

On 21/11/18 18:24, Paul Brooks wrote:
> On 21/11/2018 5:42 PM, Grahame Lynch wrote:
>> How much of this is "hijacking" and how much is just "least cost 
>> routing"? It is really hard to tell.
> Its not 'least cost routing', BGP doesn't work like that, unless the 
> target networks really were customers of China Telecom, or 
> customers-of-a-customer.
> China Telecom must have started advertising that those networks were 
> reachable, and then stopped advertising, for the traffic to be sent into 
> their network in the first place.

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Mark.