#96: Border Gateway Protocol: the duct tape that makes the Internet work
Around IT in 256 seconds - En podcast af Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Kategorier:
Border Gateway Protocol, BGP for short, is probably the most important protocols you might have never heard of. Well, you did at least once, in October 2021. When Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger all went down because of BGP misconfiguration. Or that one day back in 2008 when all YouTube traffic was accidentally routed to Pakistan. Because of BGP… misconfiguration. So what’s the big deal with BGP? First we must understand how the Internet works. Read more: https://nurkiewicz.com/96 Get the new episode straight to your mailbox: https://nurkiewicz.com/newsletter
