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Re:Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews ... by protoman3000 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @05:16PM (#26936760)
> Robotic Beavers

> Cut submarine cables

You don’t need any of that to break havoc on the internet. Just use BGP to advertise bogus routes to any prefixes.

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Re:Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews ... by mort96 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:00PM (#26937114)
How are you gonna train the beavers to advertise bogus BGP routes?
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Re:Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews ... by netflixandkill on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:04PM (#26937561)
If we can demonstrate to the beavers that BGP blocks running water, they may train themselves.
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Re:Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews ... by protoman3000 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:02PM (#26937137)
Injecting training data into the brain

https://mobile.twitter.com/axios/status/1382696186684014592

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Re:Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews ... by kortilla on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:22PM (#26937673)
BGP from where? Hijacking for any extended period of time is a good way to get dropped by your peers.

The average outage from these fiber cuts is orders of magnitude longer than the most catastrophic bgp hijacks.

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Re:Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews ... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:20PM (#26937664)
That's something that can be cleaned up much faster though.
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