Taming the Transient While Reconfiguring BGP
Chameleon is a system that performs any BGP reconfiguration by precisely controlling the convergence process.
BGP Route Leak at Angola Cables Slows Connectivity for Many Australians
On Thursday, 25 May, we saw another BGP route leak, this time causing significant delays in connectivity from Australia to sites in the US including Amazon’s AWS services and Akamai’s…
There is Still Hope for BGP Route Leak Prevention
RFC9234 documents an active route-leak prevention approach that defines new BGP capacities exchanged during the eBGP session open time.
Preventing and Detecting BGP Route Leaks With the Help of RFC 9234
BGP Role is a new configuration parameter in the BGP OPEN message to prevent and detect BGP route leaks caused by misconfigurations.
Will 2023 be the Year Half of the Internet is RPKI-Enabled?
While the Internet may not be growing as quickly as it once was, the threat to the whole routing fabric is.
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…
Facebook Has Good MANRS. Mistakes Still Happen.
A colleague calls his dad every afternoon, usually via WhatsApp. I bet you can see where this is going: Monday, he couldn’t reach him and got worried about what he…
Not just another BGP Hijack
On 1 April 2020, many networks witnessed a massive BGP hijack by AS12389 (Rostelecom). In this post, we’ll dig into the details of this routing incident and explain why…
Public DNS in Taiwan the latest victim to BGP hijack
Yet another incident of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack, with the latest victim this time in Taiwan. Earlier this month (May 8), traffic going through a public DNS run by…