What is BGP? How Facebook's 2021 outage took it off the internet

DEV Community·0 points·axrisi·about 8 hours ago·dev.to

What is BGP, and how did one command make Facebook withdraw its own DNS routes on Oct 4, 2021? The six-hour outage explained, step by step, from Meta's postmortem.

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