RISKS Digest 19.12 (1 May 97)
“Internet service providers lost contact with nearly all of the U.S. Internet backbone operators… some for up to 3 hours. The problem was attributed to MAI Network Services ... which provided Sprint and other backbone providers with incorrect routing tables…
“Furthermore, the routing tables Sprint received were designated as optimal, which gave them higher credibility than otherwise. Something like 50,000 routing addresses all pointed to MAI.”