BGP Peering issues???

Thu Oct 27 23:44:14 UTC 2005

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Braun, Mike wrote:

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> Apologies for straying off topic,
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> Years ago several tools and sites were available for troubleshooting BGP
> routing tables and viewing reachability over the Internet.  I remember using
> a site that, when you provided an ASN or IP address, you received a
> tree-graph showing multi-hop peer points and latency statistics from dozens
> of sources all over the internet.  I know a lot of these sites went away
> after the release of the vulnerability with the BGP's peering process was
> disclosed.  Some of the sites I bookmarked advertised that they would return
> once a more secure way of offering this information was worked out.  They
> eventually just went away (example being http://nitrous.digex.net).  Did

not to plug anyone in particular:

http://www.route-views.org/

(telnet://route-views.oregon-ix.net) and peck away at your hearts content.

> anything replace them?  What are some of the tools and sites you use to test
> if you network blocks are being seen where they should be?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Mike Braun
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