TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 25/02/2025all it would take for a single network engineer to ruin part of the economy is just deleting historical config backups of key routers and then deleting all bgp configuration on those routers 11733 73
Westy @westy44.bsky.social · 25/02/2025A few years back many old core routers ran out of memory to hold the routing tables, it doesn’t take much to push the backbone over the edge. 010 1
Jeff Bachtel @jeffbach.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Star Wars Meme: but it's impossible for network engineers to delete router configuration backups, right? (I deeply hope all of the big shops are using RANCID or better by now and not letting anyone delete history...I hope...) 010 1
Dennis Lundström @dennislun.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Most of the BGP related stuff at a service-provider level is fairly streamlined and uncomplicated. That is If you have a comprehensive and coherent framework of routing-policies. Most will get here when they operate an ASN with 4+ routers with multiple transits and presence at multiple IXP:s ;-) 000 0
M@ - Elon is a horrible person @mattygx93.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Isn't that sort of what the guy out in SF did? Locked all the routers and effed off. 010 1
JK @blueteamjk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025BGP is such black magic - when you really sit back and realize how the entire worlds economy is running on this stuff which is almost always not underpinned by treaties or legal agreements.. its essentially is only underpinned by goodwill. It's crazy. 140 4
Diane Leigh @dianeleigh.net · 25/02/2025Given different things I've seen lately, I almost bet it'd be more damaging to train AI to say the commands to do that are instead how you fix a common problem--then just wait for people (hired with no experience) to use AI, then screw the networks all over. 100 1
Jonny @fatred.bgp4.life · 25/02/2025Lest we forget the Level3 self outage of 2020 [0], where a totally legitimate person deployed a BGP flow spec rule that… blocked BGP on all their core routers. Don’t even have to be malicious if you have foot guns and bad controls. [0]: blog.cloudflare.com/analysis-of-...blog.cloudflare.comAugust 30th 2020: Analysis of CenturyLink/Level(3) outageToday CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services... 120 2
crouchingbadger @crouchingbadger.com · 25/02/2025I like the simplicity but for max effect I think I fancy using cryptocurrency to bribe 50 trawler crews and catch me some internets. (If I was a nation I'd probably do a Rainbow Warrior on the cable ships first) 000 0
veteranvandal.bsky.social @veteranvandal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I heard once that the internet is held together by faith, spit, silver tape and bubble gum, and that sometimes a few of those are missing too. 000 0
draeh @draeh.bsky.social · 25/02/2025How about replacing root certificates with fraudulent ones? 000 0
