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Re:Fastly Outage by dijit on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:27AM (#27434223)
BGP (the protocol underpinning the internet) is built entirely for avoiding outages of any size.

Even email has a method baked into to the protocol for handling failure.

Fallbacks are good, baking in resiliency is better.

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Re:Fastly Outage by iso1631 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:19PM (#27437210)
BGP has its problems (that time centurylink blackholed traffic but wouldn't drop their connections, bgp hijacks etc), but it's not centralised in single (or very few) points of failure
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Re:Fastly Outage by nabla9 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:56PM (#27437719)
User iso1631 talked about attacks, not just outages.

The basic design BGP is very vulnerable against malicious attacks. Email security is nonexistent.

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