[ga] One Broken Router Takes Out Half the Internet?

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  As an FYI, see:

 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/02/16/2233207 writes
"I work for a smallish hosting provider, and this morning we experienced

 http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg15468.html a networking
event with one of our upstreams. What is interesting about this, is it's

being caused by a mis-configured router in Europe and it appears to
be affecting a significant portion of the transit providers across the
Internet.
In other words, a single mis-configured router is apparently able to
cause a
DOS for a huge chunk of the Net. And people don't believe me when I tell

them all this new-fangled technology is held together by duct-tape and
bailing wire!"

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