Re: new BGP hijack & visibility tool “BGPalerter”
Alarig Le Lay
alarig at swordarmor.fr
Wed Aug 14 17:13:47 UTC 2019
Hi,
You can build it yourself, see
https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter#more-information-for-developers
I think that the binaries are here for thoses that don’t want to install
all the build-chain.
--
Alarig
On 14/08/2019 19:06, Ryan Hamel wrote:
> Job,
>
> I appreciate the effort and the intent behind this project, but why
> should the community contribute to an open source project on GitHub
> that is mainly powered by a closed source binary?
>
> Ryan
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 10:55 AM Job Snijders <job at ntt.net
> <mailto:job at ntt.net>> wrote:
>
> Dear NANOG,
>
> Recently NTT investigated how to best monitor the visibility of
> our own and our subsidiaries’ IP resources in the BGP Default-Free
> Zone. We were specifically looking how to get near real-time
> alerts funneled into an actionable pipeline for our NOC &
> Operations department when BGP hijacks happen.
>
> Previously we relied on a commercial “BGP Monitoring as a Service”
> offering, but with the advent of RIPE NCC’s “RIS Live” streaming
> API [1] we saw greater potential for a self-hosted approach
> designed specifically for custom integrations with various
> business processes. We decided to write our own tool “BGPalerter”
> and share the source code with the Internet community.
>
> BGPalerter allows operators to specify in great detail how to
> distribute meaningful information from the firehose from various
> BGP data sources (we call them “connectors”), through data
> processors (called “monitors”), finally outputted through
> “reports” into whatever mechanism is appropriate (Slack, IRC,
> email, or a call to your ticketing system’s API).
>
> The source code is available on Github, under a liberal open
> source license to foster community collaboration:
>
> https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter
>
> If you wish to contribute to the project, please use Github’s
> “issues” or “pull request” features. Any help is welcome! We’d
> love suggestions for new features, updates to the documentation,
> help with setting up a CI regression testing pipeline, or
> packaging for common platforms.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job & Massimo
> NTT Ltd
>
> [1]: https://ris-live.ripe.net/
>
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