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The '''AS 7007 incident''' was a catastrophic routing failure on April 25, 1997, when a misconfigured router at a small Florida ISP (advertising itself as autonomous system 7007) began announcing incorrect routes to large portions of the Internet. The erroneous routes propagated through the global [[Border Gateway Protocol|BGP]] routing infrastructure, causing traffic from major networks to be diverted or blackholed, effectively partitioning the Internet for approximately ninety minutes. The incident demonstrated that the Internet's distributed routing architecture — usually praised for its resilience — could be hijacked by a single misconfigured node, revealing the fragility of trust-based routing protocols that assume all participants are correctly configured. It remains the canonical case study in the trade-off between distributed autonomy and collective vulnerability: the same [[Routing Protocol|routing protocol]] architecture that makes the Internet robust against physical damage makes it vulnerable to configuration errors, because the protocol has no mechanism to distinguish a legitimate route update from a malicious or erroneous one.

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