Telstra routing flub affects hundreds of networks worldwide – iTnews

A misconfiguration by Telstra is causing problems for hundreds of network providers worldwide, sparking accusations of border gateway protocol (BGP) hijacking by the Aussie telco.
BGP is used to determine traffic routes between internet connected network providers based on agreements and policies.
The routing protocol is prone to misconfigurations, at times with major consequences as traffic is sent by large networks to smaller ones that don’t have the capacity to handle the volume, for exampl…

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