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Reminds me of the dorms in college where the internet would get messed up because someone would plug in a random router from home that would hand out junk dhcp ip addresses. It's like that but for the whole world.

Sounds like BGP…

A significant amount of stuff is indeed held up by hopes and prayers [0], but by design, the internet was built to be robust [1]. In this case the scope was limited to .mobi.

[0] https://xkcd.com/2347/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Debate_about_design_go...

Any connection to the recent "White House asks agencies to step up internet routing security efforts" [1] is purely coincidental.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482087

even worse, the raspberry pi, tripped, fell, and burst into flames for no good reason.