Did someone try to hijack Twitter? Yes!
On 1 February, Myanmar’s army took power in a coup against the elected government and detained the civilian leadership. Restrictions to the Internet were reported as people woke up to…
Major Route Leak by AS28548 – Another BGP Optimizer?
It’s usually not good news to get a Twitter notification from Qrator on a Saturday morning. Unfortunately, this one was no exception. Now that a severe incident has happened, let’s…
BGP, RPKI, and MANRS: 2020 in review
This article originally appeared on APNIC, which has kindly let us repost it. In 2020, the Internet was a lifeline for many people across the world as…
Another BGP Incident Impacts TWC, Rogers, Charter and Others
Just like an incident last week, today the Internet saw another routing incident in the global BGP routing system. Here we will dig into today’s incident and – once…
Big route leak shows need for routing security
Yesterday saw another significant routing incident in the global BGP routing system, once again highlighting why it’s important for network operators to be implementing good routing security practices. The following…
What are Routing Incidents? (Part 4)
So far this week, we’ve talked about what routing is, how it works, and some of its general challenges. Now, let’s get specific about some of the…
Not just another BGP Hijack
On 1 April 2020, many networks witnessed a massive BGP hijack by AS12389 (Rostelecom). In this post, we’ll dig into the details of this routing incident and explain why…
BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a ‘cascading catastrophic failure’ that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc
Verizon sent a big chunk of the internet down a black hole this morning – and caused outages at Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon, and others – after it wrongly accepted a…
Large European Routing Leak Sends Traffic Through China Telecom
Beginning at 09:43 UTC today (6 June 2019), Swiss data center colocation company Safe Host (AS21217) leaked over 70,000 routes to China Telecom (AS4134) in Frankfurt, Germany. China Telecom then…