BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

'Normally you'd filter it out if some small provider said they own the internet'

Verizon sent a big chunk of the internet down a black hole this morning – and caused outages at Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon, and others – after it wrongly accepted a network misconfiguration from a small company in Pennsylvania, USA.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Networks
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/24/verizon_bgp_misconfiguration_cloudflare/