On Saturday 10 April 2010 06:01:40 pm joachim Gwoke wrote: > For asking's sake, > what do you make of this story I got from somebody? > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/10/bgp_glitch/. > This raises lots of 'what ifs'...
As McTim has mentioned, this has happened a fair bit in recent years. Common cases are cited in the Renesys blog (remember YouTube's fiasco in Pakistan?). We were affected by one in Brazil two years ago. Tools like BGPmon and others have helped narrow down offending networks much more quickly than in the past. Being on mailing lists where a lot of network operators lurk doesn't hurt either. That said, BGP could use a face-lift in this regard, which is where RPKI comes in. But until then, a lot more vigilant filtering between service providers and their customers is what will save us. Unfortunately, this is not happening as much as we'd like. > for example can we tell > if huawei is not going to route us through china since > they are the ones laying the infamous data backbones? This is unrelated, please don't spread FUD :-). The network being built in Uganda is a Layer 1 piece of infrastructure, i.e., no IP routing is involved. Traffic is carried over DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing), which lives at Layer 1. If the Ugandan network did connect to the Internet, similar risks as other IP networks in the world apply. I like a conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but I don't think Huawei will be fitting backdoor chips into their equipment so they can help spread the Great Firewall :-). On the other hand, my confidence-level in their "packet" kit is wanting, to say the least, but that's another story. > Or > What else is going on out there that appears or we miss > as blips? Lots. It's amazing the Internet even works at all :-). To see more comments on this particular case, here's a thread on the NANOG mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg22006.html Cheers, Mark.
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