afrinic rpki issue

Wed Jun 14 13:15:08 UTC 2023

Hi All,

Did this issue resurface some days ago...?
I had nearly 6000 ROAs on June 1st.
That went to ZERO on June 2nd.

I'm using routinator. Should i have changed something in my config to 
accomodate for some change?

Best Regards,
Carlos

On Sun, 20 Nov 2022, Cedrick Adrien Mbeyet wrote:

> Hi Job,
> 
> Thank you for this good analysis and for sharing your findings.
> The issue has since been fixed and the team will publish a post-mortem accordingly once we are done with making sure the issue will not
> reappear.
> Your recommendation is well noted and I cc my colleague so that they can take that into consideration in our improvement roadmap.
> Best regards,
> 
> ==============================
> Cedrick Adrien MBEYET
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> 
> +++ Never give up, Keep moving forward +++
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 3:49 PM Job Snijders via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
>       Hi all,
>
>       It appears PacketVis correctly identified an issue.
>
>       AFRINIC's self-signed root AfriNIC.cer [1] points via its SIA to
>       'afrinic-ca.cer' [2] which in turn references a RPKI Manifest named
>       'K1eJenypZMPIt_e92qek2jSpj4A.mft'.
>
>       The K1eJenypZMPIt_e92qek2jSpj4A Manifest lists 499 Certificate
>       Authorities. This Manifest represents the demarcation point between
>       "Afrinic as root CA operator" and "Afrinic hosting rpki on behalf of its
>       members". In other words; this is an important top-level Manifest in the
>       critical path towards the ROAs of the Afrinic members.
>
>       There was a ~ 7 hour gap in the validity window of this Manifest and its
>       companion CRL (from 20221120T000311Z until 20221120T071514Z). The
>       serials 1E19 and 1E1A (respectively 12B2 and 12B3) are successive.
>
>       rpki.afrinic.net/repository/afrinic/K1eJenypZMPIt_e92qek2jSpj4A.crl
>           CRL Serial Number:        1E19
>           CRL valid since:          Nov 18 00:03:11 2022 GMT
>           CRL valid until:          Nov 20 00:03:11 2022 GMT
>
>           CRL Serial Number:        1E1A
>           CRL valid since:          Nov 20 07:15:12 2022 GMT
>           CRL valid until:          Nov 22 07:15:12 2022 GMT
>
>       rpki.afrinic.net/repository/afrinic/K1eJenypZMPIt_e92qek2jSpj4A.mft
>           Manifest Number:          12B2
>           Manifest valid since:     Nov 18 00:03:13 2022 GMT
>           Manifest valid until:     Nov 20 00:03:13 2022 GMT
>
>           Manifest Number:          12B3
>           Manifest valid since:     Nov 20 07:15:14 2022 GMT
>           Manifest valid until:     Nov 22 07:15:14 2022 GMT
>
>       (The above can be reconstructed using archives from http://www.rpkiviews.org)
>
>       The rcynic validator hosted at Afrinic also noticed a gap in objects:
>       https://validator.afrinic.net/rpki/rcynic/rpki.afrinic.net_week_svg.html
>
>       A possible recommendation might be to increase the validity window of
>       these two objects from a sliding 48-hour window to a 1 or 2 week window.
>       This way any stalling in the issuance process wouldn't case operational
>       issues on the weekend.
>
>       Kind regards,
>
>       Job
>
>       [1]: SKI EB:68:0F:38:F5:D6:C7:1B:B4:B1:06:B8:BD:06:58:50:12:DA:31:B6
>       [2]: SKI 2B:57:89:7A:7C:A9:64:C3:C8:B7:F7:BD:DA:A7:A4:DA:34:A9:8F:80
> 
> 
>
>       On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 08:36:23PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
>       > From: PacketVis <notifications at packetvis.com>
>       > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 04:30:44 +0000
>       >
>       > Possible TA malfunction or incomplete VRP file: 73.95% of the ROAs disappeared from afrinic
>       >
>       > See more details about the event:
>       >https://packetvis.com/#/bgp/event/905ec8b7d37e89a2d7b547bca99fd57e-372b0bf3-9056-407e-9e8d-e986567155fc/4f309cb51ba9314fafa64da53d007e342fac
>       a613
> 
> 
>