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Re: Yahoo outage summary

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Sun Jul 08 17:23:35 2007 
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:29:10 -0400
"Marcus H. Sachs" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> I put up a diary at the Storm Center
> (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3112) that summarizes what we
> know about the Yahoo outage on Friday.  If anybody has any additional
> info they want to share or comments about the write-up please let me
> know.
> 
In other words, it was yet another BGP screw-up that secured routing
could have prevented.

Any clue about the root cause, i.e., malice or accident?


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb