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.
Tag: routing
MANRS readiness now available in DASH
View and track your networks’ MANRS readiness scores in APNIC’s DASH.
VPP with Babel
Guest Post: How to conserve IPv4 addresses with IGP Babel.
Bytes from IETF 120 — a few routing topics
BGP over QUIC, a BCP for publication servers, and AS Path protection at IETF 120.
Privacy and DNS Client Subnet
How can a CDN steer users to optimize content delivery, and how does this affect user privacy?
Assessing the security of Internet paths
Guest Post: A case study of critical Dutch infrastructures.
Routing topics at RIPE 88
Bgpipe, reclaiming class E space, reconsidering RPKI validation, low-latency RPKI validation, and revisiting BCP 194.
Command-line routing stats with BGPKIT Monocle and Cloudflare Radar API
Guest Post: With BGPKIT Monocle, users can glance at routing stats for any ASN, economy, or the whole Internet or look up prefix origins and examine their RPKI validation status as well as prefix visibility on global routing tables.
Drop early, drop often: Raw vs filter iptables packet filtering
Guest Post: Examining iptables performance when filtering traffic at different processing stages within a Linux-based router.
[Podcast] DNS is the new BGP — how we really route things in the modern Internet
The role of DNS in steering how content is fetched and the changing landscape of decision-making for applications-level routing.