BGP Experiment

[hank at interall.co.il (hank at interall.co.il)]

On 23/01/2019 19:40, Job Snijders wrote:

I agree with Job.  Continue the experiment and warn us in advance.

-Hank

> Dear Ben, all,
>
> I'm not sure this experiment should be canceled. On the public Internet
> we MUST assume BGP speakers are compliant with the BGP-4 protocol.
> Broken BGP-4 speakers are what they are: broken. They must be fixed, or
> the operator must accept the consequences.
>
> "Get a sandbox like every other researcher" is not a fair statement, one
> can also posit "Get a compliant BGP-4 implementation like every other
> network operator".
>
> When bad guys explicitly seek to target these Asian and Australian
> operators you reference (who apparently have not upgraded to the vendor
> recommended release), using *valid* BGP updates, will a politely emailed
> request help resolve the situation? Of course not!
>
> Stopping the experiment is only treating symptoms, the root cause must
> be addressed: broken software.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job