[HN Gopher] Routing History of AS15562 (2017)
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       Routing History of AS15562 (2017)
        
       Author : jamespwilliams
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2022-01-07 16:38 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (stat.ripe.net)
        
       | ale42 wrote:
       | This is awesome!
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | londons_explore wrote:
       | This looks like pretty clear evidence of wasting IP addresses to
       | me...
        
         | halfdeadcat wrote:
         | Not wasting. They are obviously unused blocks allocated to
         | them.
        
       | techplex wrote:
       | This seemed to happen back in 2017.
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621347 (105 comments)
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       | https://hn.algolia.com/?q=AS15562
        
       | ralferoo wrote:
       | More information:
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       | https://labs.ripe.net/author/cteusche/bgp-meets-cat/
        
       | graderjs wrote:
       | This is hilarious! How is that possible? it looks like
       | coordinated large scale actions on a network -- but I'm no expert
       | and I have no idea what I'm looking at really.
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       | What's going on here?
        
         | advisedwang wrote:
         | They are announcing and withdrawing different prefixes at
         | different times
        
       | walrus01 wrote:
       | If I load the RIPE WHOIS for this AS, I really hope there's a
       | link to the youtube video of nyancat in the free-form text
       | description field entered by the people running the AS...
        
       | motohagiography wrote:
       | How did they avoid getting dampened with all that flapping
       | though? This is the most meta crop circle level hackery ever.
       | Where do I send my hat?
        
         | andrewnyr wrote:
         | The withdrawals happen about 3ish days after announcement...
         | this isn't flapping imo.
        
           | jaywalk wrote:
           | The smallest "pixels" are 8 hours long, but that's still long
           | enough to not be considered flapping.
        
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