NANOG, This is a reminder that this experiment will resume tomorrow (Wednesday, Jan. 23rd). We will announce 184.164.224.0/24 carrying a BGP attribute of type 0xff (reserved for development) between 14:00 and 14:15 GMT.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:05 AM Italo Cunha <cu...@dcc.ufmg.br> wrote: > > NANOG, > > We would like to inform you of an experiment to evaluate alternatives > for speeding up adoption of BGP route origin validation (research > paper with details [A]). > > Our plan is to announce prefix 184.164.224.0/24 with a valid > standards-compliant unassigned BGP attribute from routers operated by > the PEERING testbed [B, C]. The attribute will have flags 0xe0 > (optional transitive [rfc4271, S4.3]), type 0xff (reserved for > development), and size 0x20 (256bits). > > Our collaborators recently ran an equivalent experiment with no > complaints or known issues [A], and so we do not anticipate any > arising. Back in 2010, an experiment using unassigned attributes by > RIPE and Duke University caused disruption in Internet routing due to > a bug in Cisco routers [D, CVE-2010-3035]. Since then, this and other > similar bugs have been patched [e.g., CVE-2013-6051], and new BGP > attributes have been assigned (BGPsec-path) and adopted (large > communities). We have successfully tested propagation of the > announcements on Cisco IOS-based routers running versions 12.2(33)SRA > and 15.3(1)S, Quagga 0.99.23.1 and 1.1.1, as well as BIRD 1.4.5 and > 1.6.3. > > We plan to announce 184.164.224.0/24 from 8 PEERING locations for a > predefined period of 15 minutes starting 14:30 GMT, from Monday to > Thursday, between the 7th and 22nd of January, 2019 (full schedule and > locations [E]). We will stop the experiment immediately in case any > issues arise. > > Although we do not expect the experiment to cause disruption, we > welcome feedback on its safety and especially on how to make it safer. > We can be reached at disco-experim...@googlegroups.com. > > Amir Herzberg, University of Connecticut > Ethan Katz-Bassett, Columbia University > Haya Shulman, Fraunhofer SIT > Ítalo Cunha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais > Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem > Tomas Hlavacek, Fraunhofer SIT > Yossi Gilad, MIT > > [A] https://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2018/program.html > [B] http://peering.usc.edu > [C] https://goo.gl/AFR1Cn > [D] > https://labs.ripe.net/Members/erik/ripe-ncc-and-duke-university-bgp-experiment > [E] https://goo.gl/nJhmx1
