Someone posted this:
It's timelapse over an 11 hour window showing rogers losing connection to all external peer routers one by one.
Someone on reddit posted this:
Quote:
All of Roger's border routers stopped advertising to the Internet, so none of their IP space is able to route to the Internet. The routers use a protocol called "BGP" to talk with other routers. These routers are where the fiber circuits end up being physically plugged into, connecting Roger's network to the other providers/exchanges.
Why that happened is to be determined. Either human error during a normal update, a rogue employee that wanted to cause damage, or hacked.
Since it's taking so long to fix, I'm assuming network engineers are needing to get physical access to their main routers to restore service. But if someone hacked them and changed access codes, they may be resetting everything to default and restoring from backups. What if the backups of the config files were compromised as well? Then they are starting over by hand, which will take a long time.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the war room right now!
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Interesting that the mediation between the competition bureau and Rogers/Shaw's proposed merger failed earlier this week. This outage hammers home why the merger would be bad news.