Today's Outage Post Mortem

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This post details a significant outage caused by a bug in a Flowspec rule applied to Juniper edge routers, leading to a system-wide failure and temporary internet disconnection. It highlights the importance of BGP and Flowspec in network management, the challenges of automated rule propagation, and the incident response process to restore services. The post also draws parallels to the Syrian internet outage, emphasizing the critical nature of routing protocols.