Three of the best: Long reads
Here are three of our best thought provoking long reads from 2019 for your holiday break.
Tag: BGP
Down the black hole: Dismantling operational practices of BGP blackholing at IXPs
Guest Post: Study analyzes the efficiency of RTBH as a mitigation tool at one of the world’s largest IXPs.
Thoughts from IETF 106
Geoff Huston shares his thoughts from IETF 106, including on BBR, IPv6, and DoH.
AS prepending in BGP
How common is AS Prepending in today’s Internet?
Securing BGP on the host with origin validation
Guest Post: Learn to use Route Origin Validation for BGP on the host.
Why is securing BGP just so damn hard?
Why are some Internet issues so challenging to solve, while others seem to be effortless and appear to solve themselves?
Leaping through RPKI history with Ziggy
Guest Post: NLNet Labs’ new tool, Ziggy, enables the validation of historical RPKI data.
Event Wrap: PacNOG 24
APNIC proudly supported and participated at PacNOG 24 in Apia, Samoa, from 24 to 28 June 2019.
PacNOG 24: Trust, rumours and routing security
Staying out of news headlines should be motivation enough to secure Internet routing. So why do we continue to hear about Internet routing leaks and hijacks?
Network protocols and their use: BGP and DNSSEC
Geoff takes a look at the initial design expectations and the deployment realities of BGP and DNSSEC.