Three of the best: George Michaelson
In 2024, George Michaelson touched on topics ranging from news to explainers. Here are three of George’s best.
Tag: BGP
War story: RPKI is working as intended
Guest Post: Recently, a substantial BGP hijack went almost completely unnoticed. Why is that?
Out-of-Band network design for service provider networks
Guest Post: How to design OOB networks for ISPs, inspired by data centre networking.
Serial BGP hijackers: A reproducibility study and assessment of current dynamics
Guest Post: Profiling serial hijackers with less data than previous efforts while achieving similar accuracy.
The ultimate weapon against DDoS — BGP Flowspec
Guest Post: How to filter malicious traffic directly at the network edge, without third-party scrubbing centres.
Crafting endless AS-PATHS in BGP
Guest Post: Combining BGP confederations and AS override can potentially create a BGP routing loop, resulting in an indefinitely expanding AS-PATH.
The threat of deprecated BGP attributes
Guest Post: How how a small issue with BGP routing, a deprecated path attribute, can cause a major interruption to Internet traffic.
When routing breaks your (open) DNS service
Learning from the Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident.
Routing topics at RIPE 88
Bgpipe, reclaiming class E space, reconsidering RPKI validation, low-latency RPKI validation, and revisiting BCP 194.
Is regulated BGP security coming?
What impact would regulating BGP routing security have on the global Internet?