How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline TodayHow Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today2019-06-24 What happened?Today at 10:30UTC, the Internet had a small heart attack. A small company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit provider. This was the equivalent of Waze routing an entire freeway down a neighborhood street —
