If your internet wobbled last weekend, you have Vodafone India to thank for it
It’s always BGP (when it’s not DNS). Absent route filtering didn't help, either Share Copy Vodafone Idea, the Indian limb of the mega-carrier, has been fingered as the source of what’s been described as a “major BGP hijack” by Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), an organisation that “provides crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing threats.” Early on Saturday, net-watchers noticed that an autonomous system number (ASN) held by Vodafone Idea published over 30,000 bogus border gateway protocol (BGP) prefixes. BGP,HJ,hijacked prefix AS270497 24.152.1...