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Some detailed info which is great, however I am more interested in knowing 1) why, or what, led to the wrong decision being made, and 2) why it took so long to

by josephb 10y ago

Some detailed info which is great, however I am more interested in knowing 1) why, or what, led to the wrong decision being made, and 2) why it took so long to notice / revert.

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d4l3k 10y ago
These configurations are absurdly finicky. If you remember a couple of years ago, Pakistan took down youtube to a similar border gateway protocol misconfiguration. These things are pretty quick to be caught, but the configuration changes take time to propagate (in this case 30m). http://www.cnet.com/news/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-offline-and-how-to-make-sure-it-never-happens-again/ http://www.cnet.com/news/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-offlin...