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Internet infrastructure is broken. Why do a few companies control the backbone of the internet? Shouldn’t there be a fallback or disaster recovery plan if one
by xyst 6y ago
Internet infrastructure is broken.
Why do a few companies control the backbone of the internet? Shouldn’t there be a fallback or disaster recovery plan if one or more of these companies become unavailable?
- kzrdude 6y agoWhy doesn't stuff just route around this automatically, if one provider has problems?
- q3k 6y agoThings mostly routed around the problem. Issues arose because a) some people are single-homed to Level3/CenturyLink b) apparently Level3/CenturyLink continued announcing unreachable prefixes, which breaks the Internet BGP trust model.
- johncolanduoni 6y agoThe problem is the provider having problems is still sending misconfigured routes after the other providers have tried to pull them in response to the outage. So it’s as if CenturyLink was doing a massive BGP attack against their peers, pointing at a black hole.