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Honey the aws is down again (lemmy.ml)
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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the internet is broken

Well, true. IPv4 exhaustion yet not enough IPv6 support
de-peering

If this dispute escalates further and a complete de-peering happens in that case both networks will end up having a blackhole. Customers sitting on either side (and their single-homed downstreams) will not have any routes to each other.

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BGP hijacking

On April 8th, 2010 China Telecom hijacked 15% of the Internet traffic for 18 minutes, experts speculate it was a large-scale experiment for controlling the traffic flows. The incident also affected US government (‘‘.gov’’) and military (‘‘.mil’’) websites.

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