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RE: Yahoo outage summary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcus H. Sachs)
Sun Jul 8 17:48:22 2007
From: "Marcus H. Sachs" <marc@sachsfamily.net>
To: "'Nanog'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:47:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20070708212019.68B1DBC690@bigboy.machshav.com>
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Yep, soBGP or S-BGP could have prevented this. But that seems to be a
bridge too far right now.
I don't know about the cause - malicious or accidental - perhaps somebody
from Level3 or Hanaro Telecom can explain the rest of the story.
Marc
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:smb@cs.columbia.edu]
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 5:20 PM
To: Marcus H. Sachs
Cc: 'Nanog'
Subject: Re: Yahoo outage summary
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
