[Podcast] Night of the BGP zombies
Geoff discusses BGP ‘zombie’ routes — routes that should have been withdrawn but persist in the routing system. He explores how these anomalies might occur and what can be done to address them.
Geoff discusses BGP ‘zombie’ routes — routes that should have been withdrawn but persist in the routing system. He explores how these anomalies might occur and what can be done to address them.
Job Snijders discusses his global RPKI validation archive, and the annual ‘state of RPKI’ report he produces.
Why do BGP zombies occur and how big of a problem are they?
Did the stability of the routing system change in 2024?
Geoff Huston’s analysis of BGP routing table growth for 2024 and some projections.
In 2024, George Michaelson touched on topics ranging from news to explainers. Here are three of George’s best.
Guest Post: Recently, a substantial BGP hijack went almost completely unnoticed. Why is that?
Guest Post: How to design OOB networks for ISPs, inspired by data centre networking.
Guest Post: Profiling serial hijackers with less data than previous efforts while achieving similar accuracy.
Guest Post: How to filter malicious traffic directly at the network edge, without third-party scrubbing centres.