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It's the Network Law - it's BGP. It's always BGP. Even when you want to blame the firewall, it's probably the firewall's BGP config. [source - 20 years of NetS
by happyopossum 4y ago
It's the Network Law - it's BGP. It's always BGP. Even when you want to blame the firewall, it's probably the firewall's BGP config.
[source - 20 years of NetSec and NetEng experience]
- jonny_eh 4y agobut sometimes it's DNS [1,2,3]. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/22/a-dns-outage-just-took-down-a-good-chunk-of-the-internet/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/22/a-dns-outage-just-took-dow... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/17/cloudflare-dns-goes-down-taking-a-large-piece-of-the-internet-with-it/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/17/cloudflare-dns-goes-down-t... [3] https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/12/notion-outage-dns-domain-issues/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/12/notion-outage-dns-domain-i...
- happyopossum 4y agoBah - your 3rd example is just a single site, and the second was actually caused by BGP. I'm not convinced BGP wasn't the problem with the first either ;-)
- FranksTV 4y agoI have it on good information that BGP was the second gunman on the grassy knoll at the Kennedy Assassination.
- addingnumbers 4y agoBGP is something that makes everything more resilient when it's achieving its goals, not like an unknown assassin. Large-scale BGP harm almost always comes from a trusted, good-willed peer making an honest mistake.