DDoS Mitigation Leak

Join our network Sign up for the best of Kentik, from articles to analysis and more. Subscribe Summary In this edition of Beyond Their Intended Scope, we take a look at last week’s BGP leak by a DDoS mitigation company which impacted networks around the world. We look at the impacts in both BGP and traffic data, and discuss how RFC 9234’s “Only to Customer” BGP Path Attribute could have helped. Late last year, we published the first edition of Beyond Their Intended Scope, our new blog series intended to shed light on BGP mishaps which may have escaped the attention of the internet community but are still worthy of analysis. In this episode, let’s take a look at a BGP routing mishap from last Tuesday that briefly disrupted and misdirected internet traffic from around the world through Bucharest, Romania, due to a BGP leak by a DDoS mitigation provider. It may come as a surprise to many that route leaks continue to occur with some regularity. The difference today is that routing hy ... Read full article.