This takes me back to the FLIX disruption of '97. A lonely router (I seem to recall a Cisco 2500 series, but I could be wrong) at the Florida Internet eXchange

This takes me back to the FLIX disruption of '97. A lonely router (I seem to recall a Cisco 2500 series, but I could be wrong) at the Florida Internet eXchange was misconfigured. The result was the router advertising itself to the world as the default route for a large chunk of the Internet. I think it was also on a T-1, which was a good link at the time. I was the senior UNIX systems manager at a business unit HQ of a Fortune 5 company then, and still remember all the people stopping me in the halls that day to ask what was wrong with the Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident