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Interdomain Route Leak Mitigation: A Pragmatic Approach, Benjamin Tyler Mcdaniel
Interdomain Route Leak Mitigation: A Pragmatic Approach, Benjamin Tyler Mcdaniel
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The Internet has grown to support many vital functions, but it is not administered by any central authority. Rather, the many smaller networks that make up the Internet - called Autonomous Systems (ASes) - independently manage their own distinct host address space and routing policy. Routers at the borders between ASes exchange information about how to reach remote IP prefixes with neighboring networks over the control plane with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This inter-AS communication connects hosts across AS boundaries to build the illusion of one large, unified global network - the Internet. Unfortunately, BGP is a dated protocol …