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		bbrazil on June 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “An ISP in Asia is leaking routes to a Tier 1 tran... People cannot access some internet sites, depending on who they have internet connectivity with. https://blog.cloudflare.com/route-leak-incident-on-october-2... has more information from a previous time this happened. A key idea is that internet routing depends a lot on trust, and it's possible for a single misconfigured site to cause serious issues across the internet.

knodi123 on June 12, 2015 [–]

I thought the point of the internet was that it was fault tolerant enough to be deployed on the battlefield?

voidlogic on June 12, 2015 | [–]

This wasn't battle damage, this was operator error. Building a tank to survive a war and building it to work when driven in a ditch are not quite the same.

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