BGP
Think tank urges PMO to investigate documents in Amazon bribery case
No, we aren’t talking about any political party - but BGP is the core issue that caused Facebook’s outage.
Here is a quick primer on what BGP is:
The way a network (e.g. Airtel) "knows" another network (e.g. FB) is by a process called "peering" (almost always a BGP peering). BGP is the protocol which allows one network to say to the other "hey, send all packets for such & such addresses to me" [Read]
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