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bgp.tools July 2025 Changelog

Happy July from bgp.tools,

It has been a long time since the last change log and that has mostly been because I have been taking care of other parts of the business, however that doesn’t mean that things have not been changing in the meantime. Here are some of the examples of things that have changed since March!

New alert type for Bad IX Broadcast Packets

You can now be sent an alert for when one of your routers on an internet exchange is detected to have been emitting unwanted broadcast traffic, this is useful in case you’re in the situation of bring up a new IX or swapping a device and get caught out with some of the defaults on a new platform (Like Cisco/Arista sending RAs, MikroTik sending MNDP, etc)

Prefix selection when searching for IPs

When you search for singular IP addresses the website has to find what prefix matches for that IP, However it is common for there to be more than one match.

Sometimes the more specific prefix is a traffic engineering prefix (to force networks to use peering links )

New Prometheus Monitoring

Users of the Prometheus scraping endpoints (for monitoring your network via Prometheus) will have to change their URL endpoints for scraping soon if they have not done so already.

https://bgp.tools/prom/XXX URLs have turned into https://prometheus.bgp.tools/prom/XXX

This change has been done to ensure that prometheus clients do not get caught up in the various anti-bot systems that exist on the main website.

New IXPs

Between March and now bgp.tools has added 11 new IXPs, They are

  • Iraq-IXP
  • STUIX
  • SIX.SK
  • GetaFIX Manila
  • GetaFIX Cebu
  • GetaFIX Davao
  • France-IX Toulouse
  • France-IX Marseille
  • France-IX Lille
  • France-IX AURA
  • OGIX

This brings bgp.tools to 111 internet exchanges!

Small Stuff

In addition hero the smaller bug fixes/changes that don’t deserve their own section:

  • Customer agents can censor hops on traceroutes
  • New override button to force a search if a query is incorrectly interpreted as a DNS lookup
  • Reliability improvements to prefix anycast detection
  • The asns.csv export no longer trims names to reduce their display length
  • IX Names are normalised to remove emoji and other strange symbols
  • Fixed issue where the “deleted route/route6” alert would trigger incorrectly on only updates
  • Fixed FDNS search stalling/locking up
  • Almost all BGP sessions are now recorded, regardless of their paid status
  • Fixed rare cases where IP to prefix redirects would redirect you to <nil>
  • Removed “Add BGP.Tools as a search engine” button due to lack of modern browser support