BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

'Normally you'd filter it out if some small provider said they own the internet'

Updated Verizon sent a big chunk of the internet down a black hole this morning - and caused outages at Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon, and others - after it wrongly accepted a network misconfiguration from a small ISP in Pennsylvania, USA."