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    Routing Security

    Hunting Routing Resources around the World

    October 4, 2021

    Following the progressive exhaustion of IPv4 address space, we observed a parallel growth in commercial trading of available IPv4 addresses which led to a global redistribution of address blocks from their original “birthplace”. Such is the case of address blocks that had been originally allocated by a given Regional Internet Registry (RIR) – say ARIN, for example – but were then sold to a company that started to use and announce them in a completely different region – say RIPE. While this is perfectly fine and legitimate, it sometimes poses an additional burden on those subjects, namely Internet Exchange Points, that rely on information stored into Internet Routing Registries (IRR)…

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    Francesco Ferreri, Chief Engineering Officer at Namex
  • Routing Security

    BGPalerter, a tool for monitoring your BGP

    March 5, 2021

    BGPalerter is a self-configuring BGP monitoring tool, which analyses streams of BGP data from various sources. It is pre-configured for real-time detection of visibility loss, RPKI invalid announcements, hijacks, and more.

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    Francesco Ferreri, Chief Engineering Officer at Namex

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