>> 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 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? It's worth also just verifying that all the data for the prefix is correct and up to date in all the usual suspect routing registries. Some ISPs will generate their announcement filters from such data, errors could creep in, and it's also good to be able to point at correct data when making complaints. Keith
