[97792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo outage summary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Jul 8 19:52:11 2007
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:51:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: 'Nanog' <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070708212019.68B1DBC690@bigboy.machshav.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin 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.
Or using route registeries and filters, or any of the other dozen ideas
suggested over the last decade.
> Any clue about the root cause, i.e., malice or accident?
Does it matter? You are screwed either way.
