BGP: A quick-fix hack that still directs the Internet
By Gautam Godse· June 2, 2015· 1 min read
Great article by Craig Timberg at the Washington Post on the Border Gateway Protocol:
I was soon to encounter BGP in 1991, my third year of studying Computer Engineering. This turned out to be important in 1997 when my brother and I launched India's first private ISP - WMINet - and we worked with VSNL, the state-owned ISP, educating them about BGP.
Those were early wild west days of the Internet in India and built on personal relationships with admins at each ISP. So personal, that I had root access on giaspn01 - the first commercial public email server in India operated by VSNL. That story for another day.
But within a couple of years the Internet exploded in India and that, was the end of the innocence.