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If you were the sys admin at that stell mill and you come into the office on that day. What would be different?
by ToFab123 7y ago
If you were the sys admin at that stell mill and you come into the office on that day. What would be different?
- justusthane 7y agoYou'd essentially be DDoSed. The internet wouldn't work, and your firewall logs would show that you're being flooded with inbound traffic. The firewall would probably be dropping the unsolicited inbound traffic, so internally you shouldn't see any impact. Unless as part of the misconfiguration that caused this, the firewall also thinks it knows how to route traffic to the affected prefixes, in which case it would be accepting the traffic and routing it, in which case segments of the internal LANs could be flooded too.
- icedchai 7y agoMore than likely this wouldn't even hit their firewall. BGP misconfigurations generally occur on the router(s), in front of their firewalls, that connect to the upstream providers. Packets come in one connection and go out the other because you're now the shortest path from A to B.