That's actually an accurate statement. From the White House's 'National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace', "(iii) Border Gateway Protocol. Of the many routing protocols in use within the Internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is at greatest risk of being the target of attacks designed to disrupt or degrade service on a large scale." BGP, along with IP and DNS were identified in their document as three "key protocols" whose security and reliability are "Essential to the security of the Internet infrastructure."
There has been a significant amount of work/discussion over the last few years to find ways to secure BGP so that some malicious/incompetent BGP-speaker couldn't create substantial black holes in the internet. As there is no global standard for using the Routing Registries, or any other registry-like entity, there is no global method in place for validating an announcer's authority for an AS, nor a prefix. Of course, like nearly anything else in our industry, there are a number of schools of thought on the Best Way (tm). There is also a new iteration of this discussion over on NANOG, I'm sure it will turn into yet another entertaining thread. -jm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amazing" To: Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:30 PM Subject: Re: Who likes BGP? [7:64123] > LMAO.... > > "the Bush Administration recently pointed to BGP as critical technology that > needs to be secured. > > > ""The Long and Winding Road"" wrote in > message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ""Edwin R. Gonzalez"" wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I came across this article about BGP earlier today, > > > check it out; > > > > > > http://news.com.com/2100-1009-990608.html > > > > > > > > > yada yada yada :-> > > > > the big point seems to be the misconfigured router incident, and it is > > highly unlikely that any system or protocol could have prevented that from > > happening. afterall, that router was trusted by it's neighbors, as it > should > > have been. > > > > against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. > > > > ( OK, I agree in concept. but the article fails to make it's case by > citing > > idiocy as a driving factor ) Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=64152&t=64123 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
