News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout

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• NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like I need an ELI5

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  • zwerg@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I assume they mean Border Gateway Protocol. Its used to help define what network traffic goes where. This could mean traffic was being redirected to bad actor(s).

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    • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You summed it up perfectly

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bad actors as in the US gov? Suggesting they were using bgp to spy?

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I kind of understand what’s the use of BGP, but the article was lacking too many details even for me. cloudflare has a better article, their conclusion is that this was probably an accident and not an attack

    blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-route-leak-venezuela/

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• FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The whole thing was just DNS, including the explosions.

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  • zwerg@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    BGP doesn’t use DNS

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    • plz1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was a joke. It’s always DNS.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neither do explosions.

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    • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They're kind of related but yeah, they're distinctly their own things. I was making a joke about every problem always being somehow DNS related. Comedy is hard.

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