Remember back in the early days of the net when mis-configured routers would sometimes announce themselves to the world, for everything?
From: Eric Kuhnke Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 3:44 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Gino, can you get this? :) My favorite of all time is when Pakistan's PTCL (an entity functionally equivalent to Centurylink or Verizon, they're the LEC) decided to announce Youtube's ipv4 prefixes... Not only did they mess things up for everyone but they also DDoSed themselves at their international transport capacity in and out of Karachi via submarine routes. http://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-blames-pakistan-network-for-2-hour-outage/ On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote: Well, there is a lot of single homed stuff out there for sure. It doesn't get much better the higher up you go in the OSI model though. There's also a lot of incompetent operators out there as well. http://www.bgpmon.net/large-hijack-affects-reachability-of-high-traffic-destinations/ https://twitter.com/bgpstream?lang=en On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's not, really, it's the fragility of layers 1 and 2... all the BGP > sessions in the world and diverse upstreams won't help you if you're not > diverse and suffer backhoe fade, tornado, raccoon chew, drunk guy in a semi > truck taking out an entire utility pole, 40 pound chunk of ice falling on a > dish+radio, etc etc > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote: >> >> ... or how fragile BGP is :) >> >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > If the average person knew to what extent the internet is held together >> > with >> > duct tape and twine, they'd be scared. Splice canisters for backbone >> > lines >> > carrying 40-channel WDM systems going through handholes that are also a >> > residence of a family of angry raccoons. >> > >> > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Some may laugh, but that's, sadly, quite plausible. >> >> >> >> That said, at least a few years ago one could making a killing >> >> replacing light bulbs at AT&T shelters. $800/bulb. >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > somebody in a cell site shelter tripped over an orange extension cord >> >> > and $5 >> >> > power strip probably... >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Gino Villarini <ginovi...@gmail.com> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> yeap, we are being affected, outage is related to Mobile Network. >> >> >> No >> >> >> official word yet, there was a earlier rumor about a circuit breaker >> >> >> being >> >> >> accidentally turned off. But my inside sources debunked it. I >> >> >> believe >> >> >> its >> >> >> a Issue with EPC >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Bit AT&T PR outage. Over 1 million cusomers down for 8+ hours now. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Were you effected? Any idea what caused it? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > > >