Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
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Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
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Re: Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
#2Author of the post here, Ask me almost anything I guess(?)
Re: Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
#3Author of the post here, Ask me almost anything I guess(?)
Considering Events yesterday - how do you test non-live ?
Re: Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
#4Author of the post here, Ask me almost anything I guess(?)
no question, just a selfish request for more blog posts please
Re: Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
#5So this is why Facebook went down, eh? ;)
Re: Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
#6This was very cool and also IMO very irresponsible.
Re: Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
#7Author of the post here, Ask me almost anything I guess(?)
Considering Events yesterday - how do you test non-live ?
Maybe dn42.eu?
> Experiment with routing technology
> Participating in dn42 is primarily useful for learning routing technologies such as BGP, using a reasonably large network (> 1500 AS, > 1700 prefixes).
> Since dn42 is very similar to the Internet, it can be used as a hands-on testing ground for new ideas, or simply to learn real networking stuff that you probably can't do on the Internet (BGP multihoming, transit). The biggest advantage when compared to the Internet: if you break something in the network, you won't have any big network operator yelling angrily at you.
Re: Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
#8Author of the post here, Ask me almost anything I guess(?)
Considering Events yesterday - how do you test non-live ?
Who said I tested non-live?
The actual beta builds/sanity checks were done just with two VMs peered with each other, but the live internet one was done in one take (and never again, at least by me)
Re: Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering Events yesterday - how do you test non-live ?
Who said I tested non-live? The actual beta builds/sanity checks were done just with two VMs peered with each other, but the live internet one was done in one take (and never again, at least by me)
To add on, BGP has a very much "meme" status of being scary and dangerous, and any touching will break youtube etc. [Mostly perpetuated by infosec circles]
It's really not the 2000's anymore, BGP is mostly safe and filtered. There are still improvements to be made (I've even written on the blog about them), but one persons immense fuck ups are far less likely to cause issues now that IRR filters and prefix limits exist.
Re: Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
#10This was very cool and also IMO very irresponsible.
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