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 w...