Another Major BGP Mishaps Redirects US Traffic to China
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Google goes down after major BGP mishap routes traffic through China
Google says it doesn't believe leak was malicious despite suspicious appearances.
Google lost control of several million of its IP addresses for more than an hour on Monday in an event that intermittently made its search and other services unavailable to many users and also caused problems for Spotify and other Google cloud customers. While Google said it had no reason to believe the mishap was a malicious hijacking attempt, the leak appeared suspicious to many, in part because it misdirected traffic to China Telecom, the Chinese government-owned provider that was recently caught improperly routing traffic belonging to a raft of Western carriers though mainland China.
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I noticed that YouTube was down yesterday for a little bit. Very short, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in Another Major BGP Mishaps Redirects US Traffic to China:
I noticed that YouTube was down yesterday for a little bit. Very short, though.
Even Facebook got taken out for a bit too... Don't know if it's related or not, but still...
