An experiment run by Duke University and a European group disrupted Internet traffic Friday. The problem started just before 9 a.m. GMT Friday and lasted less than half an hour. About 1 percent of all the Internet’s traffic was affected by the snafu, as routers could not properly process the BGP routes they were being sent. The damage could have been far worse if someone had been able to intentionally announce bad routes, security experts say. It’s unclear why RIPE NCC and Duke were trying out these new route formats.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2125909/research-experiment-disrupts-internet–for-some.html