Let me clarify the reason I thought the article was horrible. Highlights: ... "There are very few experts in this. It really is the deep magic," ... Unfortunately, as well as the 4.2 billion IP address limit, the internet is bound by another arbitrary restriction: the 512,000 slots in the BGP grid. ... "To fix it, they need to reboot the routers, and lots of them will be old machines that have never been rebooted before, and sometimes when you reboot something like that it doesn't switch back on again," ...
Regards T On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Matthias Appel <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im > > Auftrag von Tony Sarendal > > Gesendet: Montag, 18. August 2014 12:55 > > An: misc > > Betreff: Re: Does OpenBGPd suffer collateral damage with this? > > > > What a horrible article. I thought the kebab I just had for lunch ruined > my > > day, reading that was worse. > > > > If this ruined your day, please refrain from reading further articles about > BGP. > > If you want to experience _real_ pain, read > http://www.bgpmon.net/chinese-isp-hijacked-10-of-the-internet/ > > BR, > > Matthias
