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		spenczar5 on July 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020 Wow, BGP brings down globally-used DNS. It’s like a perfect lesson in weak points of the modern web’s accidental design.

dilyevsky on July 18, 2020 [–]

If you own a prefix and announce some bad routes that cause all your traffic to be blackholed due to misconfiguration on your end i dont see how it’s bgp’s fault.

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