Temporary loss of Internet conectivity in several countries

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Author: capiLocation: Portugal PostPosted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:43 pm    Post subject: Temporary loss of Internet conectivity in several countries
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It seems an experimental feature being tested by RIPE in their BGP announcements yesterday at around 9 am UTC caused several Internet Service Providers -- mostly in Europe -- to lose connection with their peers, temporarily cutting off or disrupting Internet connectivity in several countries.

The problem may have been caused by a faulty BGP implementation in some core routers, which corrupted the new attribute before propagating it to their peers and/or reacted to what they perceived as an invalid BGP attribute by resetting the peering session.

A few more details here: http://seclists.org/nanog/2010/Aug/774

Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-20090818-bgp describes a situation similar to what may have occurred: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080af150f.shtml


Last edited by capi on Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:21 pm; edited 1 time in total

Author: alt.don PostPosted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:01 pm    Post subject:
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Very interesting Capi. Thanks for the link.



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