OK Google, what is African ISP Main One, and how did it manage to route your traffic into China through Russia?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/14/nigerian_telco_bgp/
Monday's prolonged Google cloud and websites outage was triggered by a botched network update by a West Africa telco, it is claimed.
Main One, a biz ISP based in Lagos, Nigeria, that operates a submarine cable between Portugal and South Africa, said a misconfiguration at its end caused Google-bound traffic to be redirected to China Telecom for 74 minutes.
OK Google, what is African ISP Main One, and how did it manage to route your traffic into China through Russia?
Nov 14, 2018, 2:17am UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/14/nigerian_telco_bgp/
> Monday's prolonged Google cloud and websites outage was triggered by a botched network update by a West Africa telco, it is claimed.
> Main One, a biz ISP based in Lagos, Nigeria, that operates a submarine cable between Portugal and South Africa, said a misconfiguration at its end caused Google-bound traffic to be redirected to China Telecom for 74 minutes.