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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 25 2019, @04:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the Optimistic-Optimization-Outage dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Tuesday June 25 2019, @10:02PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday June 25 2019, @10:02PM (#859880) Journal

    That kind of response from Verizon is why pretty much no one likes any of the phone companies. That kind of attitude will guarantee their demise, if / when something comes up that competes for their customers. I for one sure have hopes that Starlink will be part of that answer. Since, Starlink seems to be on track for production deployment.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @10:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @10:50PM (#859899)

    They suck, slightly, less than AT&T.

    MAGA, baby, MAGA.