Topics to Look For¶
- CIDR
- Route aggregation
- BGP
Reading¶
- Peterson & Davie, 6th ed: 4.0 - Problem: Scaling to Billions
- Dordal: 14.0-14.5 - CIDR and Routing — skip 14.4.2 and 14.4.3
- Peterson & Davie, 6th ed: 4.1 - Global Internet
- Dordal: 15.0-15.3 - BGP
- An incident in which Pakistan “stole” Youtube traffic using BGP:
- Insecure routing redirects YouTube to Pakistan — brief, readable Ars Technica article.
- Video: YouTube and Pakistan Telecom — Video of Pakistan stealing Youtube, then Youtube taking [itself] back.
- Repeated attacks hijack huge chunks of Internet traffic, researchers warn — Ars Technica article about major insecurities in BGP and potential exploits of them.
Supplemental¶
- CNP3: Interdomain Routing
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All Ars Technica articles involving BGP — A few decades worth of incidents and insecurity.
- Understanding the Internet’s insecure routing infrastructure — an article with a good overall explanation of BGP and of a particular incident in which China “stole” a big chunk of the internet’s traffic.