Great outage of 1997 - Does anyone recall?

[danny at tcb.net (Danny McPherson)]

On Feb 22, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Paul Wall <pauldotwall at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Gadi Evron <ge at linuxbox.org> wrote:
>>> What was that story with an African routes some years back, any  
>>> memories
>>> anyone? I am looking for a reference.
>>
>> 146.20.0.0/16?
>
> that's erie forge/steal... I think maybe Gadi's referring to the 41/8
> used by an italian DSL provider for their internal network?? (not
> announced outside their ASN I don't think)

Or the AFOL-KE thing with Above last March:

<http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/03/africa-online-kenya-latest-internet-routing-insecurity-casuality/ 
 >

-danny