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List:       inet-access
Subject:    Re: BGP announcement 134.187.0.0/16
From:       Chuck <nagy () balazs ! mines ! edu>
Date:       2001-06-26 2:52:32
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Bill Brunton wrote:

> 
> Nice of you to provide a link to a location that requires a password.


You mean nice of them ;-). Anyway I think this explanation is weak to say the least.

Can someone explain in plain english?

> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Chuck wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:06:23 -0600
>>From: Chuck <nagy@balazs.mines.edu>
>>Reply-To: list@inet-access.net
>>To: list@inet-access.net
>>Subject: BGP announcement 134.187.0.0/16
>>
>>I might have missed the related thread on this list, however, could someone tell
>>me if the message below is accurate?
>>
>>Quoting our colo provider:
>>
>>On Saturday afternoon, June 23, 2001, at approximately 2:05 pm MST, an unknown
>>Internet network pushed a bad Internet Routing Announcement (BGP announcement
>>134.187.0.0/16) to the public Internet.  This corrupt announcement caused
>>multiple "Core" Internet networks to stop routing for approximately 60-120
>>minutes.  This failure of a large number of the networks that make up the Global
>>Internet caused a huge slowdown and or complete failure of the Global Internet
>>for users between these times.
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>This failure was due to a corrupt BGP Session that was pushed to the [snip]
>>network from multiple Internet networks.  A number of these networks have issued
>>public notices as well as Cisco Systems has issued a public notice in relation
>>to the Cisco IOS bug
>>(http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCdr54230)
>>that allowed this to happen.



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