[egamirorrim]

What's that about a hijack?

[homero]

Related, non-causal event: BGP origin hijack of 1.1.1.0/24 exposed by withdrawal of routes from Cloudflare. This was not a cause of the service failure, but an unrelated issue that was suddenly visible as that prefix was withdrawn by Cloudflare.

[ollien]

I'm a bit uneducated here - why was the other 1.1.1.0/24 announcement previously suppressed? Did it just express a high enough cost that no one took it on compared to the CF announcement?

[JdeBP]

And because people highlighted it on social media at the time of the outage, many thought that the bogus route was the cause of the problem.

[kylestanfield]

So someone just started advertising the prefix when it was up for grabs? That’s pretty funny