"Is BGP safe yet?" test

Matt Corallo nanog at as397444.net
Tue Apr 21 16:11:50 UTC 2020


Right until RIPE finishes deploying AS0 ROAs for bogons, which I recall is moving forward :p.

> On Apr 21, 2020, at 03:01, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
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>> On 21/Apr/20 08:51, Matt Corallo via NANOG wrote:
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>> Instead of RIRs coordinating address space use by keeping a public list which is (or should be) checked when a new peering session is added, RPKI shifts RIRs into the hot path of routing updates. Next time the US government decides some bad, bad, very bad country should be cut off from the world with viral sanctions, there’s a new tool available - by simply editing a database, every border router in the world will refuse to talk to $EVIL.
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> This keeps coming up.
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> If a ROA disappears, RPKI state reverts to NotFound. Unless dropping
> "NotFound" is now BCP, I think we'll be okay.
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> Mark.




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