Latest Routing news

All Dutch govt networks to use RPKI to prevent BGP hijacking

The Dutch government will adopt the RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) standard on all its systems before the end of 2024 to upgrade the security of its internet routing.
- Bill Toulas
- April 09, 2023
- 11:21 AM
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South Korean telco KT suffers nationwide outage after routing error

The second-largest telecommunications provider in South Korea, KT Corporation, has suffered a nationwide outage today, leaving all its 16.5 million customers without internet connectivity and telephony services for about 40 minutes.
- Bill Toulas
- October 25, 2021
- 12:20 PM
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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp back online after BGP fix

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are starting to come back online after a BGP routing issue caused an over five-hour worldwide outage.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 04, 2021
- 06:44 PM
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ARIN will take down its RPKI for 30 minutes to test your BGP routes

ARIN plans on performing unannounced maintenance of its RPKI, sometime in July, for about thirty minutes to check if networks are adhering to BGP best practices.
- Ax Sharma
- June 03, 2021
- 02:40 AM
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Comcast now blocks BGP hijacking attacks and route leaks with RPKI

Comcast, one of America's largest broadband providers, has now deployed RPKI on its network to defend against BGP route hijacks and leaks. Left unchecked, a BGP route hijack or leak can cause a drastic surge in internet traffic that now gets misdirected or stuck, leading to global congestion and a Denial of Service (DoS).
- Ax Sharma
- May 20, 2021
- 03:16 PM
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CenturyLink routing issue led to outages on Hulu, Steam, Discord, more

A CenturyLink BGP routing mistake has led to a ripple effect across the Internet that led to outages for numerous Internet-connected services such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Garmin, Steam, Discord, Blizzard, and many more.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 30, 2020
- 01:05 PM
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IBM Cloud global outage caused by "incorrect" BGP routing

On June 9th, 2020, IBM Cloud data centers suffered a global outage that caused connectivity issues for many of the web sites and platforms utilizing the service, including BleepingComputer.
- Ax Sharma
- June 11, 2020
- 11:19 AM
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