[RndTbl] BGP data in real time?

John Lange john at johnlange.ca
Fri Jul 8 16:15:39 CDT 2022


Just trying to track the Rogers AS812 route announcements to get a sense
when they may be coming back up. As of 20:00 UTC (which I think is 3pm
Central) they had zero routes.

John


On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 4:02 PM Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net> wrote:

> Oh, another way to get – not the BGP data, but other data that can act as
> a proxy – is to run RIPE Atlas queries.  Among the queries you can run are
> “traceroute” queries, which can give some of the same resulting insights as
> having the raw BGP routes.
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> -Adam
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> *From:* Roundtable <roundtable-bounces at muug.ca> *On Behalf Of *Adam
> Thompson
> *Sent:* Friday, July 8, 2022 3:54 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [RndTbl] BGP data in real time?
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> Generally correct.  The data is VERY resource-intensive to process and
> AFAIK that delay literally just reflects the processing time.
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> If you want real-time, you generally need your own BGP router(a) so you
> can suck data from it/them.
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> You can also pay obscene amounts of money to Oracle (who now owns a few
> network intelligence companies including Thousandeyes among others) to
> get closer to real time, depending on what data you're after.
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> Email Theo and/or me with more details if you don't want to share them
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> -Adam
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> *Sent:* Friday, July 8, 2022, 15:45
> *To:* Roundtable, MUUG <Roundtable at muug.ca>
> *Subject:* [RndTbl] BGP data in real time?
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> Does anyone know of a good way for monitoring BGP route data in near
> real-time? There are several public BGPPlay sites out there but the data
> seems delayed?
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> That being said, one challenge I'm having with the sites is the time
> stamps don't say which timezone they are in. I assume it is UTC but if that
> is the case then the data is at least a couple hours old on any of the
> sites I've found.
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> John
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