Talk:AS 7007 incident

Latest comment: 13 years ago by Gigacephalus in topic Rated mid-importance

Rated mid-importance edit

Rated mid-importance because this was a major incident in early Internet history, which led to a much greater awareness of the need for routing security. -- Gigacephalus (talk) 11:37, 15 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

The Risks Digest source gives its own source in turn: "Randy Barrett, Steven Vonder Haar, and Randy Whitestone, Inter@ctive Week Online, April 25, 1997, SEN 22, 4, 25" -- however, since this is a 1997 source, it's unlikely to be online. -- Gigacephalus (talk) 11:57, 15 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Incident cause edit

The references explicitly mention lack of any IGP on the router during the incident. User randyqx changed the article to say that BGP/RIP redistribution was the cause of the incident. Given lack of any references to support such claim I propose that the sentence is rewritten to the original form without giving RIP redistribution as a cause.