many providers for accepting a network 12.0.0.0/8, from their customer (AS26210, AES Comunicaciones from Bolivia). This network is normally advertised and owned by AT&T (AS7018). But Telefonica is not the only network to have committed such a grievous error. In fact, Telefonica isn’t even the only network to have erroneously pretended to route traffic to this network–12.0.0.0/8–in the month of September! Ncore, AS12676, also claimed to have that same network. Bad news. But obviously a common occurrence.
middle of it may marvel on an ongoing basis that it works at all, much less as well as it does. In this way, the Internet models much of the rest of industrial society: It teeters as close as it can to the precipice, veering away from collapse only when it truly needs to, and only when enough of us look over the edge and decide we don’t really want to fall. Here’s to another year of not quite falling.