Dear All,
The MIXP team is pleased to announce that they have performed a significant overhaul, and upgrade of the BGP route server service at the MIXP. From the past weekend, the MIXP BGP route server service now does RPKI validation, and drops those network prefixes that have an RPKI state of "Invalid".
Along with completely automated IRRDB based filtering, this helps to secure users of the service against accidental Internet route leaks, and brings the operations of the MIXP Service, in line with international best practices. To facilitate debugging, peers also have access to an easy to interpret mechanism for discovering which prefixes are filtered and the reason(s) for this.
Peers with an open peering policy are encouraged to setup BGP session with the BGP route servers; we strongly advise peering with *both* route servers for resiliency. The MIXP team is certain that this positive step contributes to a safer, and more stable internetworking community in Mauritius.
Questions and/or comments should be sent to noc@mixp.org
You can set up sessions to the following:
Route Server 1: ASN: 37324 IPv4 Neighbour: 196.223.0.201 IPv6 Neighbour: 2001:43f8:270:d0d0::201
Route Server 2: ASN: 37324 IPv4 Neighbour: 196.223.0.202 IPv6 Neighbour: 2001:43f8:270:d0d0::202
Route-collector/looking-glass service: Peering to this will never result in any traffic exchange. This is meant purely for troubleshooting and statistical purposes. Peering sessions to the route collector server are publicly viewable here: https://lg.mixp.org/
Route Collector ASN: 327821 IPv4: 196.223.0.199 IPv6: 2001:43f8:270:d0d0::199