Re: new BGP hijack & visibility tool “BGPalerter”

Thu Aug 15 15:38:17 UTC 2019

This looks like fun!
(a few questions for the RIPE folk, I think though below)

What is the expected load of streaming clients on the RIPE service? (I
wonder because I was/am messing about with something similar, though
less node and js... not that that's relevant here).

I hadn't seen the ripe folk pipe up anywhere with what their SLO/etc
is for the ris-live service? (except their quip about: "used to run in
a tmux session I had to occassioanlly ssh into <foo> and restart when
<foo> rebooted" I believe the end of that quip in Iceland was: "and
now its' running as a real service")

Also, one of the strengths to the 'monitoring as a service' folks is
their number of collection points and breadth of ASN to which they
interconnect those points/ RISLive, I think, reports out from ~37 or
so RIPE probes, how do we (the internet) get more deployed (or better
interconnection to the current sets)? and maybe even more
imoprtantly... what's the right spread/location/interconnectivity map
for these probes?

thanks! for showing what's possible with tooling being developed by
like minded individuals :)

-chris
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:11 AM Job Snijders <job at ntt.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Ryan, Alarig,
>
> > On 14/08/2019 19:06, Ryan Hamel wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 07:13:47PM +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Indeed, the binary files in the github repository in the 'bin/'
> directory are merely provided as a convenience service so interested
> people don't need to compile the software themselves in order to run
> tests. This project is 100% open source.
>
> At some point in the future ready made binaries should move to a
> different place, for example perhaps we can distribute packages through
> the PPA mechanism for debian/ubuntu. It would be cool if we get to the
> point where one can install the software by simply issuing a command
> like "apt install bgpalerter". Help with packaging is most welcome! :-)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job