Border Gateway Protocol: the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Internet Routing

Jim Cowie
Chief Scientist
Dyn

Internet routing relies on good faith and trust among network operators to maintain a clean, correct global routing table. If network operators inject false routes, and persuade their peers and transit providers to propagate them, the results can range from simple denial of service to subtle traffic redirection. This talk will provide a technical overview of the weaknesses of the Border Gateway Protocol, review some examples of BGP route hijacking and misconfiguration in the wild, and suggest appropriate detection and response strategies for the network operations and research community to study.

Slides:

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Videos:

• Join the live presentation. Wednesday January 14, 4:15-5:30.  Requires Microsoft Windows Media player.
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• View Video on YouTube.

About the speaker:

Jim Cowie has been Chief Scientist at Dyn since the May 2014 acquisition of Renesys, where he was founder and CTO. Jim has more than 20 years' entrepreneurial and software development experience in high performance computing, network modeling and simulation, and Internet measurement. His recent work focuses on the structure, dynamics, performance, and economics of the Internet.

Contact information:

Jim Cowie
Chief Scientist, Dyn
http://research.dyn.com
Twitter: @jimcowie, @dynresearch