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  • drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Can someone explain to me what security issues BGP has? I’ve never looked into this aspect of networking and I only kinda know what BGP is supposed to be doing.

    • jane232@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 days ago

      One option is to hijack a prefix by announcing a more specific one. This should then route traffic to the more specific prefix to your AS. You can then analyse and forward the traffic, attempt to impersonate a server within this range or simply drop the incoming packets.

      As the author described, this case might be a bit more tricky, as BGP prefers shorter routes to longer ones. However, it seems that some longer-than-necessary routes were in use.