HackiNews

• ralferoo
  More information:

  https://labs.ripe.net/author/cteusche/bgp-meets-cat/

• motohagiography
  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
    The withdrawals happen about 3ish days after announcement... this isn't flapping imo.

    • jaywalk
      The smallest "pixels" are 8 hours long, but that's still long enough to not be considered flapping.
• techplex
  This seemed to happen back in 2017.

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621347 (105 comments)

  https://hn.algolia.com/?q=AS15562

• graderjs
  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.

  What's going on here?

  • advisedwang
    They are announcing and withdrawing different prefixes at different times
• walrus01
  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...
• londons_explore
  This looks like pretty clear evidence of wasting IP addresses to me...

  • halfdeadcat
    Not wasting. They are obviously unused blocks allocated to them.
• ale42
  This is awesome!