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bgpstuff.net v2.0 is coming

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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.

A look at BGP in 2020

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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Blog for bgpstuff.net.

Various posts devoted to BGP and BGP automation in general. All posts by Darren O’Connor