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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

Disruptions and attacks caused by BGP incidents In BGP parlance, the term “routing leak” broadly refers to a routing incident in which one or more BGP advertisements are propagated between ASes in a way they were not intended to. Each of these disruptions lasted less than an hour and appeared indiscriminate in the address blocks affected.