The Optus outage that stopped 10 million angry Australians from getting any internet access may have been due to a glitch during an internal update. Early signs suggest a 'misconfiguration' of the ...

Cloudflare reduces BGP zombies by first announcing stable paths before withdrawal, helping you avoid surprise timeouts and confusing reroutes.

Thought we were done talking about tunneling protocols? Ha! Pica8 is adding a new one — actually, a very old one — to its network OS for white boxes today: labeled BGP, which takes advantage of the ...

Business suffers when the network goes down or performance lags in today’s hyper-connected, always-on world. A dropped video call potentially means a lost sale. An ...

The FCC will vote next month on whether to adopt the proposal, which would require the nine largest broadband providers to submit their plans confidentially to the agency and file public quarterly ...

Cisco has updated its IOS XE software to address a denial of service vulnerability in its implementation of BGP over an Ethernet VPN. Cisco said that changes to its implementation of the Border ...

This is the 2nd post in the 3 part series of “Understanding the BGP Table Version”. Please visit http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80089 to review part 1 ...

Despite being a highly decentralized peer-to-peer network, the Bitcoin ecosystem is vulnerable to one of the most basic and widespread Internet attacks today — BGP hijacks, which is the act of falsely ...

I spent this evening working in my data center trying to work with one of my ISPs to fix a BGP issue that came up tonight. I have two ISPs, and each circuit terminates on individual routers; i.e ISP1 ...