[BBLISA] address hijacking

stephen g. wadlow sgw at wadlow.net
Fri Aug 23 11:56:53 EDT 2013


On Aug 23, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> wrote:

> 
> I am beginning to believe that One Communications has hijacked our address 
> space. At the moment any traceroute from a Comcast cable modem in the 
> Boston area to us dies somewhere in New York on a One Communications 
> router. How do I approach them when I am not a customer? I took this up 
> with our ISP (Windstream) and they declined to assist, as did Comcast. In 
> niether case could I speak with a person who understood what was going on.
> 
> Our IPs are in the range 66.251.72.0/23. The Windstream side of our router
> is 63.139.191.117. Traceroutes from Comcast to the latter do succeed, to 
> the former fail. They take completely different paths. Traceroutes from 
> inside our LAN to Comcast also fail, usually ending at a Level3 router in 
> NY. None of the ISP mentioned here have a working looking glass.

It looks like  66.251.72.0/23 is registered to Paetec, whom I assume is your provider.

I would escalate to them and get them to clear the issue with One Communication.

							-Steve



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