The Status of Routing Reform — How Fragile is the Internet?

crimeandpunishment points out the Associated Press's look (as carried by SkunkPost) "at an issue the government has been aware of for more than 20 years, but still isn't fixed and continues to cause Internet outages: a flaw in the routing system that sends data from carrier to carrier. Most outages are innocent and fixed quickly, but there's growing concern the next one could be devastating. A general manager at Renesys Corporation, which tracks the performance of Internet data routes, says, 'It amazes me every day when I get into work and find it's working.'"

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The Internet is not going to end

[xiando]

Last week we were running out of IPv4 and now it's BGP hijacking and next week who knows. The sky will not be falling and the Internet(s) is not going to die. I actually read the whole article and omg Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencys Peiter Zatko claims he can take the Internet(s) down in a few hours. I say BS.

This "hijacking" happens all the time, people immediately see it and fix it and nobody notices.