Once I did exactly that. I appealed my case to my upstream (cable & wireless USA at the time) and they helped me having someone correct a bgp announcement for a whole /20. The culprits were refusing to even open a ticket for me since I had no peering w/ them.
Carlos Sent from my iPad On Sep 7, 2012, at 5:31 AM, Thomas Mangin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ed, > > That's more or less it - it tend to work if you are stomping your ground > enough. > If you have a nice upstream with more weigth than you, you could ask them to > help you. > But if the culprits are not responding, and neither is their upstream, strong > swearing and public name and shame on major networking list is acceptable > IMHO :D > > Thomas > > On 7 Sep 2012, at 08:59, Ed Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What's the etiquette for asking someone to correct incorrect BGP >> announcements? A client has their /24 being announced wrongly by a company >> elsewhere in Europe - causing unreachability. It's not been a big headache >> until now as the /24 wasn't being used, but it is starting to be used now. >> >> I've contacted their noc@ address with no reply yet, and the phone number >> listed doesn't get answered. >> >> I can only think to start contacting their peers and upstreams if they don't >> sort it out... but does anyone else have suggestions or experience in how to >> deal with this? >> >> -- >> Ed Butler > >
