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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the Internet infrastructure. Understanding BGP helps explain Internet interconnectivity and is key to controlling your own destiny on the Internet. With this post we kick off an occasional series explaining who can benefit from using BGP, how it's used, and the ins and outs of BGP configuration. |
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nurkiewicz.com
Border Gateway Protocol, BGP for short, is probably the most important protocols you might have never heard of. Well, you did at least once, in October 2021. When Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger all went down because of BGP misconfiguration. Or that one day back in 2008 when all YouTube traffic was accidentally routed to Pakistan. Because of BGP... misconfiguration. So what's the big deal with BGP? First we must understand how the Internet works. |
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berthub.eu
Note: For context, please see this article on the Economist Job. I also want to thank Job Snijders who was of great help in writing this article. How the Internet Leaks A few weeks ago large swathes of the internet stopped working around the world. The cause was quickly found: a computer networking mistake over at a specialty metals company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier that month, a similar accident took down payment terminals in The Netherlands because of a misconfiguration in a Swiss datacenter which rerouted key parts of the internet to China. |
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