Over the past 24 hours, you may have felt some tremors of high latency and dropped connections as you surfed the internet. Usually these tremors would be nothing to worry about -- they're usually just the standard low-level interference caused by the occasional router reboot or similar -- but in this case they're actually the early rumblings of a much larger networking earthquake that could cause major outages and disruptions across the global internet. You've heard of the IPocalypse caused by the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses -- now it's time to learn about the BGPocalypse.