bgpstuff.net has been far more successful than I could imagine. I initially created it as a side project to learn how to create a website directly with Go. I also used gRPC between the front and backs ends. Since I created the first implementation it’s now served nearly 2 million requests.

Soon after the initial version, I added JSON support. The reason being that I wanted to create a RESTful API for users to query. I don’t have that much experience with REST so my implementation was not great. Various cracks in my code appeared dealing with the sheer amount of queries.

2020 was an eventual year in regards to the BGP table. RPKI saw a rapid increase, and we also finally broke over 100,000 IPv6 prefixes in the default free zone.

IPv6 growth

We started 2020 with an IPv6 count of 78,870. In just a single year we’ve rocketed up to 104,413. That’s an increase of 25,543 IPv6 prefixes, or a 32.39% increase. For comparison, 2020 started with 807,446 IPv4 prefixes and ended with 846,051. That’s an increase of 38,605 prefixes, or a 4.9% increase. The pace of growth in IPv6 has been high indeed.