Re: BGP Experiment

[niels=nanog () bakker net]

Hi Saku,

> > After seeing this initial result I'm wondering why the researchers 
> > couldn't set up their own sandbox first before breaking code on the 
> > internet.  I believe FRR is a free download and comes with GNU autoconf.
>
> We probably should avoid anything which might demotivate future good
> guys from finding breaking bugs and reporting them, while sending
> perfectly standard-compliant messages. Only ones who will win are bad
> guys who collect libraries of how-to-break-internet.
> There are certainly several transit packet of deaths and BGP parser
> bugs in each implementation, I'd rather have good guy trigger them and
> give me details why my network broke, than have bad guy store them for
> future use.

I fully agree with you.  However, this doesn't give 'good guys' carte 
blanche to break stuff.  I'm glad they've already taken action to 
improve their practices as confirmed by Italo Cunha in his earlier mail.


        -- Niels.