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routing leak

noun

Definitions

  1. The situation where the internal routing table of a network provider is broadcast…

    The situation where the internal routing table of a network provider is broadcast externally to peered networks via Border Gateway Protocol (usually caused by an error in a boundary router), resulting in incorrectly routed internet traffic for external networks which accept the new routing instruction into their own routing tables.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for routing leak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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