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

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.

Speaker: Jim Cowie, Dyn