Re: [Idr] IETF LC for IDR-ish document <draft-ietf-grow-bgp-reject-05.txt> (Default EBGP Route Propagation Behavior Without Policies) to Proposed Standard

[Christopher Morrow <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > And if you are customer and have 4 prefixes in BGP table thing are fine.
>> If
>> > you by accident become transit and advertise fulm table around I think
>> we
>> > can do better in BGP to protect from it then mandate policy.
>>
>> Evidence shows that, as of today, we can not.
>>
>
> ​Have anyone actually tried ?​
>
> The BGP origin validation was at least one attempt.
>
>
origin validation doesn't protect against 'accidentally i became transit,
whoops!' mistakes.

bgpsec also doesn't protect against this scenario.

There have been a few years worth of papers/analysis out of academia (and
at least 2 drafts in the ietf) talking about the above.


> The other one could be as simple as *"ebgp policy auto"* where based in
> the IRRDB and your peer's AS router can build a policy automagically using
> say BGPQ3.
>
>
are you suggesting that the router build it's filtering directly (on it's
own) from an IRRdb? that seems interesting, but also fraught with peril...

I also see problems in setting up the configuration parts for this, for a
single network it probably isn't rough, but for a more generic solution
it's going to involve more configuration toggling than just enabling a
policy on the peerings. At least you'd need to account for:
  1) which irrdb to pull content from
  2) which protocol to use to do that pulling
  3) authentication?
  4) results qualifications (larger than X, smaller than Y, general content
sanity)
  5) how to match/query the irrdb for the particular peerings on this device
  6) timeouts for operations
  7) scheduling of operations
  8) security bits around the new 'service' enabled on this device

there are other things to account for as well...


> http://snar.spb.ru/prog/bgpq3/
>
>
that's very vendor specific :(


> Otherwise while Jared, you and perhaps most folks on this list already
> have automated ways to build nice and accurate policies I suspect they are
> those which do not. And those would either put "allow all" or will now
> start looking for hints "what do I put in".
>
>
vendors who sold gear could probably offer solutions in this space.


> And if the end result is what you are doing twice a day why router's can't
> do it themselves assuming IRRDB or any other src of truth is accurate ?
>
>
'how often does this data change?'
'how often do I want to refresh peering data on devices (from neighbors)'
'what is the sla for this part of the service'

Some folk do it more 'dynamically' (some providers update 4 or 6 times
day), some folk do it 'less dynamically' (email [e-mail] .. data
updated in 24hrs)

'why not do it more!' has lots of reasons in both directions, but really
that's not the point of this draft anyway.