It’s always BGP (when it’s not DNS). Absent route filtering didn t help, either Share
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Vodafone Idea, the Indian limb of the mega-carrier, has been fingered as the source of what’s been described as a “major BGP hijack” by Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), an organisation that “provides crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing threats.”
Early on Saturday, net-watchers noticed that an autonomous system number (ASN) held by Vodafone Idea published over 30,000 bogus border gateway protocol (BGP) prefixes.
BGP,HJ,hijacked prefix AS270497 24.152.117.0/24, RUTE MARIA DA CUNHA, BR,-,By AS55410 VIL-AS-AP Vodafone Idea Ltd, IN, https://t.co/WvDvQMMDCf