BIRMINGHAM – We all knew it was coming. As more and more networks are created and the IP address space is subdivided more and more the global routing table that backbone routers have to store in memory grow.
Many older routers only have 512K of memory. If the size of the table exceeds that, the routers start dropping routes. Result: network outages.
That happened Tuesday morning at about 5 AM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5). Several ISP reported ISSUES. No malice is apparent.
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