Kentik Blog: BGP Monitoring

In this second installment of Beyond Their Intended Scope, we analyze a recent BGP leak out of Brazil that briefly affected networks around the world. Because this routing mishap was a path leak (i.e., did not involve any mis-originations and therefore immune from RPKI ROV protection), it demonstrates why we need a thing called ASPA … ASAP.

The first installment of our new blog series, Beyond Their Intended Scope, covers BGP mishaps that may have escaped the community’s attention but are worthy of analysis. In this post, we review a recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia and Central Asia as a result of a path error leak by Uztelecom, the incumbent service provider of Uzbekistan.

In this blog post, BGP experts Doug Madory of Kentik and Job Snijders of Fastly review the latest RPKI ROV deployment metrics in light of a major milestone.

In this blog post, BGP experts Doug Madory of Kentik and Job Snijders of Fastly update their RPKI ROV analysis from last year while discussing its impact on internet routing security.

BGP is a critical network protocol, and yet, BGP is often not monitored. BGP issues that go unchecked can turn into major problems. This post explains how Kentik can help you to easily monitor BGP and catch critical issues quickly.