What kind of global disaster on the Internet will the BGP route leak cause?
Recently, I was studying the global catastrophe accident on the Internet. I suddenly saw this latest accident and felt very enlightening, so I share it with everyone. Cause and effect On June 24, 2019, a telecommunications operator in Pennsylvania named "DQE (AS33154)". The company learned BGP global routing from AT & T and optimized it using the BGP optimizer. The so-called optimization is to extend the network mask bit of the route to make the route more detailed. For example, 104.20.0.0/20, after optimization, becomes two routes, one is 104.20.0.0/21 and the other is 104.20.8.0/21. If the optimized route is only used in its own AS, there is no problem at all, but it must not be advertised through BGP. Routing rules According to the "longest match" routing rule of the route, 104.20.0.0/21 or 104.20.8.0/21 is definitely better than 104.20.0.0/20, so the traffic on the Internet accessing "104.20.0.0/20" will pass DQE Transit.