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One Broken Router Takes Out Half the Internet?

Posted by kdawson on from the brain-gone-punky dept.

Silent Stephus writes "I work for a smallish hosting provider, and this morning we experienced a networking event with one of our upstreams. What is interesting about this, is it's being caused by a mis-configured router in Europe — and it appears to be affecting a significant portion of the transit providers across the Internet. In other words, a single mis-configured router is apparently able to cause a DOS for a huge chunk of the Net. And people don't believe me when I tell them all this new-fangled technology is held together by duct-tape and baling wire!"

2 of 412 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Yep, Its true by myowntrueself · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's the problem. You shouldn't use rouge on your routers.

    I think that a rouged router would possibly be overly promiscuous.

    No wonder problems like this can spread like the clap in a port town!

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  2. TAG THIS ARTICLE KDAWSONSUCKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This "article" is incredibly misleading as nothing has really gone awry. It is just another pointless KDAWSON post. These things are getting REALLY old, KDAWSON.
     
    I work for a tier-3 provider, and if "half the Internet" dies, you are going to hear from a half-brained big media outlet (e.g CNN, ABC) VERY fast.