BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet

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hemlock4593•2 minutes ago

Am I stupid or did they literally take down the article right now? Got a 404 after refreshing.

ohm•about 2 hours ago

There’s a really good video explaining how BGP works https://youtu.be/RT-1DU33xIk?is=i6Vevv2AN_jZ9oHa

Hikikomori•42 minutes ago

https://youtu.be/whaKGVw1w3k

pattilupone•about 1 hour ago

The link is now down it appears.

ikiris•25 minutes ago

Anyone not resetting this outside of a peering agreement establishing support for it is weird.

hylaride•about 1 hour ago

I was briefly a network admin way back in the early 2000s. Core ISPs were playing (often petty) games with BGP routes back then for various reasons (eg forcing sub-optimal routes via AS padding unless downstream ISPs paid up). For awhile it got bad after the Dotcom implosion and networks were trying to up revenue. I've been out of the core BGP game for so long, but it's interesting to see how some things never change.

mchristen•39 minutes ago

For the longest time I could not stream YouTube on my Google fiber connection without constant buffering unless I ran my browser through a socks proxy to a server outside of the ISP network.

Some time a few years ago they got it figured out and it's no longer been an issue. I could not explain to the CSR in terms they understood what the problem was.

I always assumed it was some kind of mis-configuration...

BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet

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