BGP route hijack by AS10990

Tom Beecher beecher at beecher.cc
Fri Jul 31 14:22:11 UTC 2020


>
> So while I will continue pushing for the rest of the world to create
> ROA's, turn on RPKI and enable ROV, I'll also advocate that operators
> continue to have both AS- and prefix-based filters. Not either/or, but
> both. Also, max-prefix as a matter of course.
>

This is the correct approach. We are a very long way from being able to
flip the switch to say "everyone drop any RPKI UNKNOWN" , so in the
meantime best practices for non-ROA covered prefixes still have to be done.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 9:35 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 31/Jul/20 03:57, Aftab Siddiqui wrote:
> > Not a single prefix was signed, what I saw. May be good reason for
> > Rogers, Charter, TWC etc to do that now. It would have stopped the
> > propagation at Telia.
>
> While I am a huge proponent for ROA's and ROV, it is a massive
> expectation to req filtering to work on the basis of all BGP
> participants creating their ROA's. It's what I would like, but there is
> always going to be a lag on this one.
>
> If none of the prefixes had a ROA, no amount of Telia's shiny new "we
> drop invalids" machine would have helped, as we saw with this incident.
> ROV really only comes into its own when the majority of the Internet has
> correct ROA's setup. In the absence of that, it's a powerful but
> toothless feature.
>
> So while I will continue pushing for the rest of the world to create
> ROA's, turn on RPKI and enable ROV, I'll also advocate that operators
> continue to have both AS- and prefix-based filters. Not either/or, but
> both. Also, max-prefix as a matter of course.
>
> Mark.
>
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