The deep-dive into how Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Monday

A recap on what happened Monday On Monday we wrote about a painful Internet wide route leak. We wrote that this should never have happened because Verizon should never have forwarded those routes to the rest of the Internet. That blog entry came out around 19:58 UTC, just over seven hours after the route leak finished (which will we see below was around 12:39 UTC).

Source: The deep-dive into how Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Monday