How many times does this have to happen before China's privileges to do things like this get revoked? At this point, it can't be just a mistake and must be some state-sponsored hacking. Seems like a great way to find out where a particular Spotify user's IP address is.
> China's privileges to do things like this get revoked
By revoking China's privileges, you reinventing the Great Firewall. Or at least part of how it works, by "revoking routing privilege of selected IP ranges."
You know what, that's the narrative of China's wall building proposal in the place. To end USA's "Internet supremacy" and to advocate "Internet sovereignty".
What are you going to do? Divide the internet in half? I say that in a joking way but it’s a possibility.
You don’t need to cut the internet in half to limit China to routing IP adresses that are allocated to China.
IIRC, Google can try to dictate a BGP policy that says not to accept any routes that goes through China. However, without any verification checks (via cryptography), an entity can lie about the path that they are advertising.
No, the peers just outside of China can choose to reject advertisements of Google by China. Google can’t do much.
Re:Ask HN: Is Google Compute down?
by LinuxBender on Monday November 12, 2018 @06:03PM
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There is already a wall. This may be a case of something leaking through it.
Seems like its time to start or accelerate a working group on secure BGP.
It's always great to go to your boss/CEO, explain what's going on, and then have to say "no, there is nothing we can do about it."
We have servers in San Jose that cannot access Google services. Trace route shows everything going to China when leaving the San Jose data center. We can access the same services from Vancouver just fine.