Welcoming the New FIRST NetSec Special Interest Group
The MANRS community is continuously reaching out to new audiences to create more awareness around MANRS, explain the steps to implement its actions, and ultimately convince more people running networks…
What You Need to Know About ARIN’s Test of RPKI Infrastructure
On Friday, 5 August 2022, ARIN announced a forthcoming RPKI infrastructure test. At some point in September, both RSYNC and RRDP access to the RPKI repository will be unavailable…
One Does Not Simply “Deploy RPKI”
<Massimo Candela is a 2022 MANRS Ambassador and will speak on the topic below during RPKI Week today on Tuesday, 5 July, starting at 12:00 UTC. Register…
Configuration Issue Penalizing Single-Digit ASNs
Today, we explore an ongoing issue where it looks like an ASN is hijacking address space, but it is actually a router misconfiguration issue that unfairly penalizes certain ASNs. First,…
Majority of Announced IPv6 Address Space Now Secured by ROAs
This post was originally published on the Internet Society Pulse website on 19 April 2022. Internet measurement results from our friends at …
RFC 7911 – What happens when routers do not speak the same language
To regularly analyze the behavior of global routing and the updates your BGP speaker is receiving, the Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) format reads, reviews, and stores this information in a…
The US FCC Asked About Routing Security. Here’s what MANRS Participants Had to Say.
This week, the Internet Society submitted comments in response to a United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on routing security. It asked about how data is…
Lesson Learned: Twitter Shored Up Its Routing Security
With so many eyes on networks and traffic flows around Ukraine and Russia, any misleading announcement is quickly investigated. That’s what happened yesterday, when AS8342 (RTComm) started announcing 104.244.42.0/24, a…
Did Ukraine suffer a BGP hijack and how can networks protect themselves?
On 15 February 2022, several high-level Ukrainian services including the Ministry of Defence and two large national banks were targeted with DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. Financial services were…