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Re: Yahoo outage summary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Jul 8 17:21:42 2007
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:20:19 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Marcus H. Sachs" <marc@sachsfamily.net>
Cc: "'Nanog'" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <007201c7c196$42b98c60$6601a8c0@CSLWDC>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:29:10 -0400
"Marcus H. Sachs" <marc@sachsfamily.net> wrote:
>
> I put up a diary at the Storm Center
> (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3112) that summarizes what we
> know about the Yahoo outage on Friday. If anybody has any additional
> info they want to share or comments about the write-up please let me
> know.
>
In other words, it was yet another BGP screw-up that secured routing
could have prevented.
Any clue about the root cause, i.e., malice or accident?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
