Helping build a safer Internet by measuring BGP RPKI Route Origin Validation
December 16, 2022 2:00PM
Is BGP safe yet? If the question needs asking, then it isn't. But how far the Internet is from this goal is what we set out to answer....
Why BGP communities are better than AS-path prepends
November 24, 2022 5:31PM
Routing BGP NetworkRouting on the Internet follows a few basic principles. Unfortunately not everything on the Internet is created equal, and prepending can do more harm than good. In this blog post we’ll talk about the problems that prepending aims to solve, and some alternative solutions...
How we detect route leaks and our new Cloudflare Radar route leak service
November 23, 2022 4:00PM
Cloudflare Radar BGP Routing SecurityIn this blog post, we will introduce our new system designed to detect route leaks and its integration on Cloudflare Radar and its public API....
BGP security and confirmation biases
February 23, 2022 1:59PM
BGP RPKI Security Internet Traffic Better InternetOn February 1, 2022, a configuration error on one of our routers caused a route leak of up to 2,000 Internet prefixes to one of our Internet transit providers. This leak lasted for 32 seconds and at a later time 7 seconds...
What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
October 08, 2021 4:16PM
Outage Facebook BGP DNS TrendsToday, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data....
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October 04, 2021 10:08PM
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet
Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on....
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