You are on the right path. It's entirely possible the BGP routing updates that we witnessed 'out here' on the Internet were simply a side effect of the actual

You are on the right path. It's entirely possible the BGP routing updates that we witnessed 'out here' on the Internet were simply a side effect of the actual network problem that impacted the company. As toast0 mentioned above it is less likely to be DNS-related just because most of the related services don't tend to build dependencies on DNS (in part for this reason).