I cannot honestly imagine troubleshooting BGP without understanding the BGP table version. I use it all the time. Sometimes it is just a quick “eyeballing” of it to check to see if all the BGP table ...

As an incident that we reported on last week shows, the Internet routing system isn’t as secure as we want it to be. But how bad is it really? Let’s start with a very short introduction into Internet ...

Cloudflare reduces BGP zombies by first announcing stable paths before withdrawal, helping you avoid surprise timeouts and confusing reroutes.

Finding out after the fact that a big chunk of your internet traffic has been incorrectly routed through a server in China due to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing security issues is….not great.

The Dutch government will upgrade the security of its internet routing by adopting before the end of 2024 the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) standard. RPKI, or Resource Certification ...

This spring, services from heavy hitters like Google and Facebook seemed glitchy or inaccessible for people worldwide for more than an hour. But it wasn't a hack, or even a glitch at any one ...

First time I'm configuring this, and despite the documentation claiming otherwise, it just refuses to work right. Fortigate 200D running 5.0.11, split into two VDOMs with a VDOM link between them. The ...

On June 9th, 2020, IBM Cloud data centers suffered a global outage that caused connectivity issues for many of the web sites and platforms utilizing the service, including BleepingComputer. For ...

When the Internet goes down, rendering everything inaccessible from mission-critical business services to mental stability-critical meme generators, is it because of an accident or malicious hackers?