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| | www.kentik.com
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| | Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the Internet infrastructure. Understanding BGP helps explain Internet interconnectivity and is key to controlling your own destiny on the Internet. With this post we kick off an occasional series explaining who can benefit from using BGP, how it's used, and the ins and outs of BGP configuration.
| | networkphil.com
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| | BGP is the de facto routing protocol for inter-domain routing, or in other words, the global internet. It's used to exchange routing information among autonomous systems around the entire world. Therefore, it's extremely important we do what we can to secure BGP communications, what we advertise, and the methods we use to create peering relationships....
| | berthub.eu
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| | Note: For context, please see this article on the Economist Job. I also want to thank Job Snijders who was of great help in writing this article. How the Internet Leaks A few weeks ago large swathes of the internet stopped working around the world. The cause was quickly found: a computer networking mistake over at a specialty metals company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier that month, a similar accident took down payment terminals in The Netherlands because of a misconfiguration in a Swiss datacenter which rerouted key parts of the internet to China.
| | www.dwheeler.com
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| [AI summary] David A. Wheeler criticizes Verizon for failing to implement the essential Internet security measure RPKI, highlighting how this vulnerability allows malicious actors to shut down large portions of the network.