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		sterlind on Nov 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is Google Compute down? Seems likely to be TT's gateway to CT. New theory: TransTelecom brought up a new gateway to ChinaTelecom, which incorrectly gossiped all advertisements from ChinaTelecom. This caused a leak, since CT has bgp highjacking of Google IP ranges for the GFW within China, but ordinarily doesn't leak them outside the country. TransTelecom misconfigured the gateway to broadcast everything advertised by ChinaTelecom, bringing external traffic into the GFW.

londons_explore on Nov 12, 2018 | [–]

I doubt the GFW uses BGP to route traffic to it.

It needs to filter traffic to any address, and wouldn't have specific google ranges configured.

gsibble on Nov 12, 2018 | [–]

That's a pretty good theory.

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