Google Services- lost in transit or lost in translation?

According to a News report by the Wall Street Journal, some of the web services provided by the internet Giant Google were temporarily unavailable for nearly 2 hours on 12thNovember 2018.

The users trying to reach Google Services were rerouted to a sinuous path through operators existing in Russia, China and Nigeria.



A Google spokesman wrote that a portion of web traffic was impacted due to incorrect routing of IP addresses, and passage to Google Services was affected. The issue was resolved at 2:35 pm on Monday and services began to operate as expected.

However, the root cause of BGP Traffic Hijacking was external to Google and what exactly happened remains obscure.

The issue was first noticed by a network monitoring company, ThousandEyes, when they could not connect to Google’s G suite & incorrect routing instructions redirected them to Russian network operator TransTelekom, China Telecom & Nigerian Network provider, MainOne.

The issue became crucial when the entire web traffic dropped after landing at a router connected to China’s Telecom Framework, a government-owned provider. Following the drop, the issue caused a colossal Denial of Service (DoS).



The nature of traffic misdirection engaged is known as Border Gateway Protocol Hijacking. The bgp hijacking can knock crucial & vital services offline and simplify cyber-espionage and financial theft.

The Border Gateway Protocol Hijacking can result either from human error, misconfiguration or from malevolent action.

The Nigerian Telecom Company accepted via Twitter that the rerouting was an error that occurred during a network upgrade due to misconfiguration on their Border Gateway Protocol. The MainOne leaked 212 prefixes to China Telecom which led to Traffic Hijacking and dropping.

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