8 Jul
2007
8 Jul
'07
7:51 p.m.
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
I put up a diary at the Storm Center (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3112) that summarizes what we know about the Yahoo outage on Friday. If anybody has any additional info they want to share or comments about the write-up please let me know.
In other words, it was yet another BGP screw-up that secured routing could have prevented.
Or using route registeries and filters, or any of the other dozen ideas suggested over the last decade.
Any clue about the root cause, i.e., malice or accident?
Does it matter? You are screwed either way.