What good is BGP4 when one router going down kills you?

Right now, about half the servers hosted at RackShack.net are unreachable. According to the techs, this is due to a backbone problem with Verio.

All of RackShack.net's machines are in the same facility, AFAIK. And that facility has multiple backbone connections other than Verio.

So why are those machines unreachable, when other backbones are working? Isn't BGP4 supposed to be able to automatically route around this sort of failure?

 

 

 

 

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