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Re:BGP super-blunder: How Verizon sparked a ‘cascading catas... by yusyusyus on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:09PM (#20689708)
easier explanation is that they were doing troubleshooting and had removed the filter to do that.
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Re:BGP super-blunder: How Verizon sparked a ‘cascading catas... by icedchai on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:34PM (#20690945)
In the early days, some upstream ISPs did no filtering. You could announce anything.
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