Verizon sent a big chunk of the internet down a black hole this morning – and caused outages at Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon, and others – after it wrongly accepted a network misconfiguration from a small ISP in Pennsylvania, USA.
Large European Routing Leak Sends Traffic Through China Telecom
Beginning at 09:43 UTC today (6 June 2019), Swiss data center colocation company Safe Host (AS21217) leaked over 70,000 routes to China Telecom (AS4134) in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Microsoft Joins MANRS to Improve Routing Security
Washington, DC – 22 May, 2019 –The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, supported by the Internet Society, today announced that Microsoft has joined the program whose primary objective is to reduce the most common threats to the Internet’s routing sy
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Public DNS in Taiwan the latest victim to BGP hijack
Yet another incident of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack, with the latest victim this time in Taiwan.
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Routing security – getting better, but no reason to rest!
In January last year I looked back at 2017 trying to figure out how routing security looked like globally and on a country level. I used BGPStream.com – a great public service providing information about suspicious events in the routing system.
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MANRS in the news: ISOC MANRS – el manifiesto de ruteo seguro
ASIET (Asociación Interamericana de Empresas de Telecomunicaciones) published the article on MANRS in the November’s edition of Telecomunicaciones de América Latina magazin
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Introducing 10 new members
November was quite a busy month as MANRS gets more attention and interest from the network operators community. Since 30 October, 10 new members have joined.
MANRS Hits Major Milestone with more than 100 Network Operators Now Participating in the Global Routing Security Initiative
MANRS Observatory and MANRS Lab to Launch in 2019 Washington, D.C.
Route Leak Causes Major Google Outage
By Aftab Siddiqui, Technical Engagement Manager for Asia-Pacific Google recently faced a major outage in many parts of the world thanks to a BGP leak.