#96: Border Gateway Protocol: the duct tape that makes the Internet work
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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.
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