By now a lot of you have probably read about the Time Warner Cable (TWC) outage on August 27th. Yesterday morning I was greeted with a slew of alarms, names that wouldn’t resolve, websites that wouldn’t load and home office employees without any Internet access. It hadn’t hit the news…
Yesterday we woke up to alerts going off across a wide range of web services. In some cases, ThousandEyes employees weren’t able to access tools we use internally, such as RingCentral and Salesforce. We knew something big was up and dug into our tests to find out what was going…
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a key component of Internet routing and is responsible for exchanging information on how Autonomous Systems (ASes) can reach one another. When BGP issues occur, inter-network traffic can be affected, from packet loss and latency to complete loss of connectivity. This makes BGP an important…
The ThousandEyes team spent several days last week at Interop monitoring the health of InteropNet, the volunteer-built network that powers the conference. We set out to instrument InteropNet in order to monitor the health of services used by conference attendees and vendors
Continuing our discussion about visualizing DDoS attacks from last week, today we are going to look at an attack against a multinational bank. Whereas last week’s example focused on path visualization, this week’s will touch upon how Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays a role in rerouting traffic during an attack.