Japan was knocked offline for over 30 minutes on Friday (25 August) as a result of an error on Google‘s part which caused a BGM route hijack.
The incident has triggered an investigation by The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry of Japan.
According to BGPMon, “Google accidentally became a transit provider for Jastel by announcing peer prefixes to Verizon. Since Verizon would select this path to Jastel it would have sent traffic for this network towards Google. Not only did this happen for Jastel, but thousands of other networks as well.”
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Source: The Drum
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