Border Gateway Protocol

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• BGP: Border Gateway Protocol
• Advertises the discoverability and reachability of a network between Autonomous Systems (ASs).
• Outages caused by BGP misconfigurations/issues
  • The 2021 Facebook outage
    • Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet
    • Detailed analysis on the facebook outage
  • Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
  • Virgin Media outage (4th April 2023)
    • The Virgin Media ISP outage - What happened? - YouTube
    • Cloudflare’s view of the Virgin Media outage in the UK
• Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)
  • RPKI provides origin IP and IP prefix verification (protection against Sub-Prefix Hijacking Attack), while BGPSec provides AS path verification (protection against Shortest AS Path/One-Hop Attack). For full protection, both RPKI and BGPSec have to be implemented by all ASes along the path from the source to the destination.
  • RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing
  • RPKI and BGP: our [Cloudflare’s] path to securing Internet Routing
  • BGP leaks and cryptocurrencies
  • Murphy’s Law Strikes Again: AS7007
    • Murphy’s Law
  • One year of BGP (in)security
    • MITM and Routing Security
• Is BGP safe yet?