The introduction of a well-known Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) community for destination-based blackholing in IP networks. This well-known advisory transitive BGP community named BLACKHOLE allows an origin AS to specify that a neighboring network should discard any traffic destined towards the tagged IP prefix.
- Task accomplished: RFC 7999: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7999
- Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-blackholing/
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| IXP | Information |
|---|---|
| DE-CIX FRA, NYC, MAD, DUS, MUC, HAM, IST, PMO, MRS, DFW | https://de-cix.net/en/services/globepeer/blackholing |
| NYIIX | http://www.nyiix.net/rtbh/ |
| CIX.HR | https://www.cix.hr/o-cix-u/infrastruktura/route-server |
| Community-IX | https://www.community-ix.de/technik/ |
| LAIIX | http://www.laiix.net/rtbh/ |
| Equinix Ashburn, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Palo Alto, San Jose, Seattle, Toronto, Vienna, Geneva, Paris, Zurich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Osaka, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo | http://www.sanog.org/resources/sanog28/SANOG28-Conference_RTBH-Safiudeen.pdf |
| MSK-IX Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Stavropol, Samara, Kazan, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok | http://kb.msk-ix.ru/en/ix/services/route-server/#ddos |
| SIX Seattle | https://www.seattleix.net/blackholing |
| France IX Paris and Marseille | https://www.franceix.net/en/technical/blackholing/ |
| NIX.CZ | https://www.nix.cz/en/technical#rs |
| SwissIX | Documentation |
| BIX | only one, no redistribution to Peers Documentation |
| Software | Implementation Status | Information |
|---|---|---|
| FastNetMon | Done | Description |
| arouteserver | Done | Description |
| BGP Speaker | Implementation Status |
|---|---|
| BIRD | Done |
| GoBGP | Done |
| OpenBGPD | Done - Usage hint: "allow from any community BLACKHOLE set nexthop blackhole" |
| ExaBGP | Done |
| Nokia | Requested |
| Cisco | Open |
| Juniper | Open |
| Brocade | Open |
| Huawei | Open |
- Euro-IX tech mailing list: Discussion on commonly agreed BLACKHOLE community
- 25th Euro-IX Forum: Presentation and panel about Blackholing
- Work on an “Internet Draft” started. Authors: King, Dietzel (DE-CIX), Döring (SpaceNet), Hankins (Alu), Jiran (NIX.CZ), Kritski (NetIX), Seitz (STRATO)
- Draft of “Internet Draft” discussed on the Euro-IX tech mailing list
- “Internet Draft” submitted to IETF GROW working group
- Discussion on the GROW mailing list and during the IETF 93
- Requests from Euro-IX and GROW:
- Also add ISPs
- Be more specific about “Operations Recommendations”
- Call for “Working Group” adaption
- Working Group Last Call – all few changes
- Release of RFC 7999