Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen
@ErrataRob
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11/ Router announcements (using
BGP) and name lookups (using DNS) represent the logical structure of the Internet. When things fail, it's usually DNS and sometimes BGP.
Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen
@ErrataRob
20h
12/ Facebook put their DNS servers inside it's own address space (instead of locating them elsewhere). Thus, because of the
BGP problem, there's also a DNS problem.
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Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen
@ErrataRob
20h
20/ You can imagine right now that employees are no applying sledge hammers to concrete walls to make a hole so they can get into the server rooms to fix the
BGP problem, because their badges don't work.
Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen
@ErrataRob
20h
21/ In theory, fixing this
BGP problem should be a quick fix. But when your entire infrastructure is interdependent on itself, then there's a lot of impediments to fixing the core problem.
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