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Odd how often Verizon's name comes up in these periodic stories about mass mis-routing of internet traffic.



Part of this is Verizon's poor practices, and part of it is Verizon is a major transit provider; if a routing leak affects a large amount of the internet, it's almost certainly because a major transit provider accepted the announcement and propagated it.


Since they fail to filter these out, perhaps some enterprising person could route the entire internet through someone's closet ISP. Maybe, just maybe, they will then care.


Among the many ASes of things they've acquired, Verizon is AS701 / UUNet, which is historically one of the largest and most widespread ASes on the planet. I still think of it as uunet.




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