full-disclosure - Re: Who is destroying our internet?

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Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:34:05 -0400
From: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@...ohio.edu>
To: James Matthews <nytrokiss@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Who is destroying our internet?

> While these two events are not related in anyway, I am wondering why 
> people don't create backup off site or don't plan normal failsafe's 
> when there site is as big as Google (we have seen a few popular sites 
> die because of this mistake)

Google fat-fingered something in their BGP configs(*) .. even with all 
the HA and redundancy in the world, mistakes happen.
BGP/Routing is probably the one place where a mistake will monkey-wrench 
even the most elaborate redundancy schemes.

(*) : 
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/this-is-your-pilot-speaking-now-about.html

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