[AusNOG] Google and FB outages

[Glenn Lake]

According to TechCrunch:

Quoting Roland:

At approximately 12:52PM EST on March 13th, 2019, it appears that an accidental BGP routing leak from a European ISP to a major transit ISP, which was then propagated onwards to some peers and/or downstreams of the transit ISP in question, resulted in perceptible disruption of access to some well-known Internet properties for a short interval,


https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/facebook-instagram-and-messenger-are-down-for-some-users/

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Any heads up of the leak (accidental or otherwise) and who?

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On 14 Mar 2019, at 2:25, Bevan Slattery wrote:

> Just wondering if industry people have more of a handle on the cause
> of the outages of the above major platforms within 12 hours of each
> other.

There was a non-trivial routing leak a few hours ago which was
propagated to peers and downstreams of some operators, and which was
disruptive for a bit.

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