Internet Outage Atlas · Routing failures

Indosat BGP Hijack

Route hijack · April 2014

An Indonesian provider briefly announced routes for large portions of the internet, diverting traffic that had nothing to do with it.

How it spread

The incident showed how an operational mistake in one network can distort global reachability in minutes.

A local route leak becomes global if upstream trust is too loose.
The lesson on the record
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