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bgp.tools July 2024 Changelog

Hello and welcome back to the bgp.tools changelog for July, we skipped the one in June because there wasn’t much going on in general, so instead we have an extra big update this time!

Propagation Charts on alerts

In addition to the already existing route examples on certain types of alerts, there are now full propagation graphs for when an alert was triggered, allowing you to see the full extent of a propagation ( or a leak ) at the time it was discovered by bgp.tools!

New “Running” Cat

We have a new version of the cat! For website actions that take a little bit longer to process an animated running cat appears (because the process is running, get it?).

I hope to get more versions of this for other actions later (since not everything that the running cat appears on is for things that bgp.tools is running for, so maybe we need a “waiting” cat!)

AS-SET Loop detection

Some providers build AS-SET prefix filters from systems that do not allow loops, to help detect the rare case where this can happen, the AS-SET monitoring feature now has a loop detection feature that will alert you if there are AS-SET loops inside your own AS-SET.

Most customers will not need this feature, since a lot of AS-SETs on the internet end up looping in some way, customers should not turn this on unless they know they need it! As it will likely cause extra alarm fatigue/load.

Now collecting data on Megaport exchanges

bgp.tools is now collecting data on all 26 Megaport internet exchanges!

You can setup sessions and see the route servers for MegaIX Adelaide, Ashburn, Atlanta, Auckland, Bay Area, Berlin, Brisbane, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Miami, Munich, New York, Perth, Seattle, Singapore, Sofia, Sydney, Toronto!

Small fixes/changes

Here are the smaller user visible changes/fixes!

  1. Fixed BGP “Timemachine” sessions always having their AS Path starting with 206924
  2. Fixed LINX BGP feeds getting warnings about having a TTL of 1, intended for multihop sessions
  3. Better calculate some T1 ASNs cone number in rankings
  4. DNS searches now automatically PunyCode queries
  5. New vendor icons for Proxmox and Fortinet
  6. Fixed not being able to silence Peerlock alerts
  7. IXP Members lists now combine IXF+PeeringDB and data bgp.tools learns from direct Route Server sessions
  8. Fixed some sponsor logos not resizing correctly over SSH/Terminal connections
  9. Webhooks contact endpoints now have a JSON version
  10. Fixed AS-SET alerting sometimes getting confused by the same AS-SET name in different IRR databases
  11. RIPE Legacy space is now identified on RIR account listings
  12. Avoid the use of Heliports when trying to name a BGP session after a IATA Airport code