Fergie's Tech Blog

Con-Ed Steals the 'Net

Todd Underwood writes on the renesys blog:

Con Edison (AS27506) "stole" several important prefixes on the Internet earlier today, probably by mistake. Earlier this afternoon, I saw a message on the NANOG mailing list claiming that Con Ed was "stealing" routes to Panix, the venerable New York ISP, who had previously been hit with another outage beyond their control. Looking quickly into this with Renesys Routing Intelligence, it's far worse than that.

Con Edison apparently spent the better part of last night and today pretending to be fair number of other people's networks ranging from Martha Stewart Living to NYFIX, from The New York Daily News to Walrus Internet. This is bad. While some of these networks were customers of Con Edison, many were not. Did anyone else notice or care that all of their traffic was being misrouted or is Panix the only one of these people who isn't asleep at the switch? Read on for significantly more detail about what we saw happen and who was affected.

posted by Fergie @ 1/23/2006 08:00:00 AM