It was 1995, and everybody was excited about this new technology called BGP. I was a young sysadmin on his first job at a NOC. ... Ten minutes later, most of

It was 1995, and everybody was excited about this new technology called BGP. I was a young sysadmin on his first job at a NOC. ... Ten minutes later, most of Fairfax County is stuck in a routing loop, and we're getting angry phone calls from NOCs in California, the UK, and I think even Hyderabad. While I didn't actually take down the Internet, it gave me a lot of appreciation for how vulnerable its glue is to human error.