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Based on what I've seen: They essentially "shut down the Internet" for probably a quarter of the global population for about 3-4 hours. That response time is a
by tpmx 6y ago
Based on what I've seen: They essentially "shut down the Internet" for probably a quarter of the global population for about 3-4 hours.
That response time is atrocious. It wasn't that they needed to fix broken hardware, rather they needed to stop running hardware from actively sabotaging the global routing via the inherently insecure BGP protocol. That took 3-4 hours to happen.
As an example: Being in Sweden with an ISP that uses Telia Carrier for connectivity things started working around the time of https://twitter.com/TeliaCarrier/status/1300074378378518528 https://twitter.com/TeliaCarrier/status/1300074378378518528
- swinglock 6y agoSeems they didn't even get around to doing so, rather asking other carriers to stop peering with them. https://twitter.com/TeliaCarrier/status/1300074378378518528?s=20 https://twitter.com/TeliaCarrier/status/1300074378378518528?...
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- matsur 6y agoCenturyLink requested depeering to give them some breathing room and stop the bleeding. Hug ops.
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- tpmx 6y agoThat is a fantastic euphemism. Personally I'm disappointed Telia didn't de-peer two hours earlier, after diagnosing the issue for 30 minutes, since that whole lack of functioning routning to very large parts of the internet forced me to use VPN in north america to access many web services, including HN. I realize I'm going to get insanely downvoted by the elite internetworking crowd again but I think this needs to be said. From an outsider's POV: There seems to be a very strange and almost incestual relationship between the networking companies. Or maybe it's just their hangaround supporters? I dunno.