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…
Public DNS in Taiwan the latest victim to BGP hijack
Yet another incident of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack, with the latest victim this time in Taiwan. Earlier this month (May 8), traffic going through a public DNS run by…
Route Leak Causes Major Google Outage
Google recently faced a major outage in many parts of the world thanks to a BGP leak. This incident that was caused by a Nigerian ISP – Mainone – occurred on…
MANRS, IXPs, and Routing Security in the News
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for routing security. First, on 23 April, we introduced a new category of MANRS participants aimed specifically at Internet Exchange Points. Then,…
A Deeper Dive into the Amazon Route 53 BGP Hijack
Yesterday, we reported some initial news and details about the Amazon Route 53 BGP hijack that resulted in a loss to some cryptocurrency users. Today on the Internet Society…
Another BGP Hijacking Event Highlights the Importance of MANRS and Routing Security
Another BGP hijacking event is in the news today. This time, the event is affecting the Ethereum cryptocurrency. (Read more about it here, or here.) Users were faced…
14,000 Incidents: a 2017 Routing Security Year in Review
How was the state of the Internet’s routing system in 2017? Let’s take a look back using data from BGPStream. Some highlights: 13,935 total incidents (either outages or attacks…
Another BGP Routing Incident Highlights an Internet Without Checkpoints
Yesterday, there were two BGP routing incidents in which several high-profile sites (Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitch, NTT Communications and Riot Games) were rerouted to a previously unused Russian AS.
RFC 7908 Defines “Route Leak”
Today over on the Internet Society Internet Technology Matters blog, I wrote a piece about RFC 7908 being published. Most of us have heard the term “route leak,” but…