After my last post about home networking, I am jumping back into global routing. More specifically how Indian traffic is hitting the globe when it does not need to. This is an old discussion across senior management folks in telcos, policymakers, and more. It’s about “Does Indian internet traffic routes from outside of India?” and if the answer is yes then “Why?” and “How much?”
It became a hot topic, especially after the Snowden leaks.
BCP38 - also known as “Network Ingress Filtering” is concept where we filter incoming packets from end customers and allow packets ONLY from IP’s assigned to them. Before going to BCP38, let’s first understand how packets forwarding work: Here User 1 is connected to User 2 via a series of router R1, R2 and R3. Here R1 and R3 are ISP’s edge routers while R2 is a core router. In typical way the network is setup, entire effort is given on logic of routing table i.
Yesterday I came across a very interesting case of network hijacking of an ISP from wrong BGP announcements by another network. This issue was reported to NANOG mailing list. Issue was reported by Kevin, Senior Engineer at Altus Communications (AS11325). Problem was that SBJ Media LLC (AS33611) was making a /24 block announcement for specific slices of Altus - 208.110.48.0/20, 63.246.112.0/20, and 68.66.112.0/20 which are allocated to Altus Communications (as per ARIN whois).
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Seems like Tata Communications routing table is changed (call it fixed) to route traffic for openDNS to Singapore. It’s not going to London anymore and I see very good latency from BSNL too (which uses Tata Comm for most of it’s International traffic).
Here’s latest routing from BSNL to openDNS: HOST: laptop Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. router2 0.0% 50 2.0 1.7 1.5 2.2 0.2 2.