[afnog] Cloud Innovation Displays Very Poor, If Not Criminal, Netizenship

[Mark Tinka]

On 8/May/20 17:35, Darwin Da Costa wrote:

>
> Thanks for brining this to the community attention + very detailed
> explanation where we all can learn from and prevent ourselves/networks
> we manage.
>
> Specially now days where RPKI it’s an hot topic globally to prevent
> similar hijacks has the one being reported here.

Indeed.


>
> Shout out to AS134190 who in that case shut the sessions down after
> your call.

This goes to show that despite all the automation we are all working
toward, a lot of the Internet works because we, for the most part, we
all collaborate as flesh & blood human beings. Chances are that if I
didn't know anyone at IPDC on a personal level, this would still be an
ongoing issue.


>
> Curiosity from side: Since MacroLan is now part of the SEACOM family
> why is it not possible to do that on MyAFRINIC portal?

We are not sure. There appear to be certain objects in the AFRINIC WHOIS
database that cannot be edited in the MyAFRINIC portal. This is one of
them, so we have the AFRINIC team updating this for us.

We'll spend some more time on that as a separate item once all this dust
settles.


>
> I will repeat myself here but, folks/colleagues on the mailing list -
> if you run a network you should start thinking in adopting those kind
> of mechanisms to prevent your prefixes to being hijacked - similar to
> what is being reported here by Mark. Obviously if your equipments
> support the mentioned mechanisms.

If there ever was a time.

While RPKI would not have prevented this specific issue, every bit of
armour we can add to the skin to protect the BGP will help.

Mark.
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