RE: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00

["Jade E. Deane" <jade.deane () riven net>]

When a BGP speaker loses a peer, said peer's routes are withdrawn.

Regards,
Jade

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 16:20 -0500, Alerta Redsegura wrote:

> If I recall well, a BGP speaker only sends/receives updates to route tables,
> since the whole routing table is stored when the connection is initiated.
> Therefore, closing a connection would only prevent further route updates
> between the two attacked devices.
>
> I don´t understand why this is considered as a "serious threat", or does it
> have to do with the "de-sync" that would occur within the AS?
>
>
> Thanks for any lights.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
> Iñigo Koch
> Red Segura
>
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