When you work with IGPs, you tend to think of routing holistically. That’s because IGPs are designed to run under a single administrative authority and so assume that all peers in the routing domain ...

If you’ve spent most of your time dealing with enterprise or carrier networks, one of the things that is surprising is the sheer unpredictability of the Internet. On June 6 from 10:50am to 11:30am BST ...

Cloudflare reduces BGP zombies by first announcing stable paths before withdrawal, helping you avoid surprise timeouts and confusing reroutes.

New Zealand's voluntary ISP filtering scheme is up and running on two ISPs. Thanks to Border Gateway Protocol voodoo, some deep packet inspection, and Swedish software, the Kiwis hope to put the ...

Work that started last October on securing the protocol that binds the Internet together is finally yielding results. This week, a department called the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence ...

This spring, services from heavy hitters like Google and Facebook seemed glitchy or inaccessible for people worldwide for more than an hour. But it wasn't a hack, or even a glitch at any one ...

The border gateway protocol (BGP) supports multiple services across a single BGP connection. This multiplexing of BGP information on a single connection allows thousands of virtual private networks ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Hijacking is one of the many famous attacks hackers deploy to interfere with content delivery networks ...