Explainer: US Government Activity and BGP Security
This post is part of our MANRS Basics series. It is intended for non-experts who are interested in learning more about routing security terms and events with reasonably simple explanations.
Explainer: About Routing Security
This post is part of our MANRS Basics series. It is intended for non-experts who are interested in learning more about routing security terms with reasonably simple explanations.
What’s Happening with the US FCC Potentially Regulating BGP
In case you missed it, in early April, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a draft Declaratory Ruling and Order in the Open Internet Proceeding.
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…