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Sprint, Windstream: Latest ISPs to hijack foreign networks
Last year my colleague Jim Cowie broke a story about routing hijacks that resulted in Internet traffic being redirected through Iceland and Belarus. Unfortunately, little has changed since then and the...
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Why Far-Flung Parts of the Internet Broke Today
VolumeDrive is a Pennsylvania-based hosting company that uses Cogent and (since late May of this year) Atrato for Internet transit. A routing leak this morning by VolumeDrive was passed on to the...
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Renesys Team Launches Dyn Research
Welcome to the new Dyn Research Blog! We’re certainly glad you’re here, and we hope you like the snazzy new look. Since the Renesys team joined Dyn in May, the number one question we’ve received is...
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Chinese Routing Errors Redirect Russian Traffic
In recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a plan to enact measures to protect the Internet of Russia. In a speech to the Russian National Security Council he said, “we need to greatly...
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A Baker’s Dozen, 2014 Edition
As is our annual tradition, this blog provides a year-end review of how the Internet providers at the top of our IP Transit Intelligence global rankings (formerly, Renesys’ Market Intelligence) fared...
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Routing Leak briefly takes down Google
This morning, users of Google around the world were unable to access many of the company’s services due to a routing leak in India. Beginning at 08:58 UTC Indian broadband provider Hathway (AS17488)...
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Iran: Latest Nation to Host Critical Global Internet Infrastructure
As crippling economic sanctions are poised to be lifted by the United States, Iran is starting to emerge from its isolation as a regional and, in a very limited sense, global Internet player. Iran...
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A Baker’s Dozen, 2015 Edition
As is our annual tradition, this blog provides a year-end review of how the Internet providers at the top of our Internet Intelligence – Transit global rankings fared over the previous year. The...
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A Baker’s Dozen, 2015 Regional View
Our Baker’s Dozen blog focuses on the top global Internet providers as measured by quantity of transited IP space. If your market is not truly global, it pays to consider your provider options by...
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BackConnect’s Suspicious BGP Hijacks
Earlier this month, security blogger Brian Krebs broke a story about an Israeli DDoS-for-hire service, vDOS, which had been hacked, revealing “tens of thousands of paying customers and their (DDoS)...
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