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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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1135 points carride | 4 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Octoth0rpe ◴[10 Aug 22 13:45 UTC] No.32411808[source]▶
A couple of fun facts about this guy:

His little ISP is AS267, which is a SHOCKINGLY low number. That's like.. the ISP equiv of a 4 digit slashdot id, or owning something like sodapop.com.

He's also one of the authors of RFC 5575, which is a pretty big deal in the DDoS world.

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ajdude ◴[10 Aug 22 17:19 UTC] No.32415482[source]▶
My university’s is number 2; is there any significance to that?
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Victerius ◴[10 Aug 22 17:31 UTC] No.32415652[source]▶
Is your university among these? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/...
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entropicdrifter ◴[10 Aug 22 18:11 UTC] No.32416196[source]▶
University of Delaware, per this: https://dnschecker.org/asn-whois-lookup.php?query=AS2

So, not on that map, but it was part of ARPANET by the time the TCP/IP protocol was introduced in 1983[0], per this map: https://www.historyofinformation.com/image.php?id=6456

[0]: https://blog.google/inside-google/googlers/marking-birth-of-...

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jonathantf2 ◴[10 Aug 22 19:34 UTC] No.32417306[source]▶
I wonder why there's so many weird domains being hosted on AS2? https://dnslytics.com/bgp/as2 (scroll down to Top Domains)
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1. icedchai ◴[10 Aug 22 22:01 UTC] No.32418982[source]▶
They are probably not actually hosted on AS2. Bad actors can inject garbage into BGP AS paths, either accidentally or deliberately.
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2. MichaelZuo ◴[11 Aug 22 22:03 UTC] No.32432333[source]▶
Bad actors aren’t blacklisted for repeatedly injecting garbage?
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3. icedchai ◴[12 Aug 22 14:41 UTC] No.32439385[source]▶
Maybe? Sometimes? It probably depends if what they're doing causes operational issues. BGP is primarily a trust based system. Many upstreams have filters to limit route announcements from their downstream / customer ASes, but at its core, it is trust based.
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4. MichaelZuo ◴[13 Aug 22 13:01 UTC] No.32449480{3}[source]▶
It’s hardly trust based if enforcement against those who break the trust is so sporadic.