Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Widespread Impact Caused by Level 3 BGP Route Leak

For a little more than 90 minutes on Monday, internet service for millions of users in the U.S. and around the world slowed to a crawl. Was this widespread service degradation caused by the latest botnet threat? Not this time. The cause was yet another BGP routing leak — a router misconfiguration directing internet traffic from its intended path to somewhere else.

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