Dear all, Yesterday a small company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit provider.
The details of this of the outage can be read here. https://radar.qrator.net/blog/how-difficult-is-to-disrupt-a-service-nowadays <https://radar.qrator.net/blog/how-difficult-is-to-disrupt-a-service-nowadays> Cloudflare, one of those effected, also published more on the issue and how it impacted their operations. https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/?fbclid=IwAR11RUJU-jY-PbGMH1WjIdbR6WhqkSDcWlQR5pFU5sKsVJwPpUrTyfwJJIw <https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/?fbclid=IwAR11RUJU-jY-PbGMH1WjIdbR6WhqkSDcWlQR5pFU5sKsVJwPpUrTyfwJJIw> Solution: if you have not already considered RPKI then you probably should. https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management/certification <https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management/certification> If you are interested in understanding more about hot to deploy RPKI please let us know. Regards Hisham
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