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Do malicious BGP tables mess up just *your* domains or all domains/routers
on
'Net? If just *your* router then BGP is *not* a threat to *entire*
Net.
I'm skeptical malicious BGP tables could mess up all domains cuz by
now someone would have done this & it hasn't happened!
Yes it can. BGP works simply- you broadcast to youyr neighbors the length
of the route from you to all the nets you can touch. If you broadcast you
can reach everything in 1 hop, your neighbors will route all traffic to you
in their next update. THen that will get propoagted out a level. And so
on. Eventually it'll get caught, but it can take out a good portion of the
net before its found.
Gabe
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