Another Monday and another BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) misconfiguration causing large parts of the Internet to stop working. More on the cause and effects from the Cloudflare blog How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline:
[Monday] at 10:30UTC, the Internet had a small heart attack. A small company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit provider. This was the equivalent of Waze routing an entire freeway down a neighborhood street — resulting in many websites on Cloudflare, and many other providers, to be unavailable from large parts of the Internet. This should never have happened because Verizon should never have forwarded those routes to the rest of the Internet. To understand why, read on.
SoylentNews was also affected — alongside other prominent sites.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday June 25 2019, @07:46PM
Pretty sad that we give one company so much power over the entire WAN.
A complete redesign is in order to make the service providers into a switching network. Take away their routers.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..