Last Week’s Internet Meltdown
February 24th, 2009
For those who haven’t read about it, on Monday February 16th, 2009 there was a very small service provider in the Czech Republic that committed a ridiculous BGP configuration to their router causing major problems for network operators worldwide. A provider called SuproNet added more than 255 prepends onto a prefix making routers around the world running older software ill equipped to handle this retardedness to barf on themselves. The resulting cascade of resetting BGP sessions created quite a serious impact to stability on the Internet. I don’t think I can grant justice to the description of a root cause so I defer you to this article at Renesys
Reckless Driving on the Internet
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