Nobody said a Moratel customer announced a Google prefix, they said the issue was within Moratel.
This is a really good article that explains the issue in detail, maybe read it again? http://blog.cloudflare.com/why-google-went-offline-today-and-a-bit-about Steve On 7 November 2012 05:07, Jian Gu <guxiaoj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Where did you get the idea that a Moratel customer announced a google-owned > prefix to Moratel and Moratel did not have the proper filters in place? > according to the blog, all google's 4 authoritative DNS server networks and > 8.8.8.0/24 were wrongly routed to Moratel, what's the possiblity for a > Moratel customers announce all those prefixes? > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net > >wrote: > > > On Nov 06, 2012, at 23:48 , Jian Gu <guxiaoj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > What do you mean hijack? Google is peering with Moratel, if Google does > > not > > > want Moratel to advertise its routes to Moratel's peers/upstreams, then > > > Google should've set the correct BGP attributes in the first place. > > > > That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. > > > > If a Moratel customer announced a Google-owned prefix to Moratel, and > > Moratel did not have the proper filters in place, there is nothing Google > > could do to stop the hijack from happening. > > > > Exactly what attribute do you think would stop this? > > > > -- > > TTFN, > > patrick > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Anurag Bhatia <m...@anuragbhatia.com> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Another case of route hijack - > > >> > > http://blog.cloudflare.com/why-google-went-offline-today-and-a-bit-about > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> I am curious if big networks have any pre-defined filters for big > > content > > >> providers like Google to avoid these? I am sure internet community > > would be > > >> working in direction to somehow prevent these issues. Curious to know > > >> developments so far. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Thanks. > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> > > >> Anurag Bhatia > > >> anuragbhatia.com > > >> > > >> Linkedin <http://in.linkedin.com/in/anuragbhatia21> | > > >> Twitter<https://twitter.com/anurag_bhatia>| > > >> Google+ <https://plus.google.com/118280168625121532854> > > >> > > > > > > > > > >
