When the Internet goes down, rendering everything inaccessible from mission-critical business services to mental stability-critical meme generators, is it because of an accident or malicious hackers?
There are a range of varying claims to BGP visibility or monitoring out there, terms which are themselves quite vague As the routing protocol that runs the Internet, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a ...
There’s a fundamental problem in the internet’s fabric, of how it routes traffic from one point or network to another, that makes it less secure than what it should be. You don’t think about it every ...
BBN’s Secure BGP, which establishes a public-key infrastructure to stymie IP address spoofing, is still a work in progress and has yet to be implemented in Internet routers. Router memory constraints, ...
This spring, services from heavy hitters like Google and Facebook seemed glitchy or inaccessible for people worldwide for more than an hour. But it wasn't a hack, or even a glitch at any one ...
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are starting to come back online after a BGP routing issue caused an over five-hour worldwide outage. Today, at approximately 11:50 AM EST, all three websites were ...
For more than an hour at the beginning of April, major sites like Google and Facebook sputtered for large swaths of people. The culprit wasn't a hack or a bug. It was problems with the internet data ...
I cannot honestly imagine troubleshooting BGP without understanding the BGP table version. I use it all the time. Sometimes it is just a quick “eyeballing” of it to check to see if all the BGP table ...