Yahoo outage summary

Sun Jul 8 23:51:04 UTC 2007

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin 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.

Or using route registeries and filters, or any of the other dozen ideas
suggested over the last decade.

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

Does it matter?  You are screwed either way.