2016 internet outages: trends, insights & analysis
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2016 Internet Outages Trends, Insights & Analysis
Archana KesavanProduct Marketing Manager
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About ThousandEyesThousandEyes delivers visibility into every network your organization relies on.
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State of the Internet in 2016
• DDoS Attacks– DNS based, high volume attacks
• Infrastructure Overload– Network & applications unable to
handle peak traffic
• Internet Fragility– Localized cable cuts can cause
world-wide impact
• Redundancy is important!
Trends
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• The Internet is vulnerable and dependent on critical infrastructure like DNS.
What did the 2016 outages reveal?
• Planning oversight and insufficient pre-production testing can result in poor user-experience.
In a DDoS State of Mind Infrastructure Overload
• Cable cuts, user-induced BGP misconfigurations can be fatal.
• Prolonged outages due to lack of redundant infrastructure.
Internet Fragility Resiliency & Redundancy
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• Monitor revenue generating assets.• Manage your DNS service providers. • Keep routing in-check.
Prepare for the Year Ahead
• Diversify with multiple data centers, upstream ISP providers and DNS providers.
• Ensure efficient server load-balancing,
Monitor business critical services
Build resilient networks
• Baseline your network to identify bottlenecks and ISP behavior.
• Pre-test your environment. Be Proactive
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Demo
1. Monitor your critical services for DDoS Attacks
Dyn DDoS Attack
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DDoS: Dyn Sees Availability and Loss Issues
Correlates with 100% packet loss
Low of 0% availability
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DDoS: Dyn Traffic Terminates in Telia
Anycast IP accessible from some locations
Traffic terminating in Telia network
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Demo
2. Overloaded networks & service delivery
Powerball unable to handle heavy traffic
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Powerball Outage
Page load time spikes to
10seconds at the time of the
lottery
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Powerball Outage
Powerball introduces Microsoft cloud data centers to handle the
uptick in traffic
100% packet loss
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Powerball Outage
Powerball futherintroduces EdgecastCDN a few minutes after the lottery to
handle traffic
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Demo3. Impact of misconfigured routes/route-leaks
Amazon route leak through Hurricane Electric
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Before the Route Leak
Amazon /20 prefix
advertised by Amazon AS
16509 to upstream ISPs
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Amazon Route Leak Route leak introduced
results in traffic from Portland
going via Zurich to reach Amazon
in the US
100% packet loss within Hurricane Electric node in
Zurich
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Amazon Route LeakUpstream ISP introduces new /21 prefix
Innofield introduces a more specific prefix (/21) for Amazon
to a private AS. Results in all traffic going via Hurricane Electric to Amazon to be
dropped!!
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