Border Gateway Protocol, BGP for short, is probably the most

important protocols you might have never heard of. Well, you did at

least once, in October 2021. When Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and

Messenger all went down because of BGP misconfiguration. Or that one day

back in 2008 when all YouTube traffic was accidentally routed to

Pakistan. Because of BGP… misconfiguration. So what’s the big deal with

BGP? First we must understand how the Internet works.

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