Maybe so, but in this case it looks like Dodo was the one that hosed them. Since the internet is designed to be as decentralised as possible, it relies on a ce

Maybe so, but in this case it looks like Dodo was the one that hosed them. Since the internet is designed to be as decentralised as possible, it relies on a certain level of trust when it comes to BGP advertisements. In this case Dodo advertised an incorrect routing table upstream to Telstra which then propagated it out as per the protocol.