In our ongoing commitment to providing a convenient tool for everyday use, we are excited to announce a complete revamp of the UI/UX design of the Qrator.Radar web application. 

Our team enjoyed working to create a more user-friendly interface, improved navigation, and better data visualization.

These updates aim to improve our users’ experience and simplify the processes of connectivity troubleshooting and network anomaly analysis.

These and other interesting features await you on our updated Qrator.Radar website. 

 Dive in and explore all the changes we've made firsthand.

CHECK OUT THE NEW LOOK

https://radar.qrator.net

The study delves into the Sustainability of National Internet Segments, revealing crucial insights into Internet reliability across countries.

We are excited to announce the launch of our brand new Qrator.Radar website.

We completely redesigned our backend, having unified it for both Real-time BGP monitoring and the new radar.qrator.net site. This brings several advantages, including improved data consistency and performance.

All the credit is due to the RFC’s authors: A. Azimov (Qrator Labs & Yandex), E. Bogomazov (Qrator Labs), R. Bush (IIJ & Arrcus), K. Patel (Arrcus), K. Sriram.

What are route leaks in the context of BGP routing

According to RFC7908: “A route leak is the propagation of routing announcement(s) beyond their intended scope. That is, an announcement from an Autonomous System (AS) of a learned BGP route to another AS is in violation of the intended policies of the receiver, the sender, and/or one of the ASes along the preceding AS path. The intended scope is usually defined by a set of local redistribution/filtering policies distributed among the ASes involved. Often, these intended policies are defined in terms of the pair-wise peering business relationship between ASes (e.g., customer, transit provider, peer).”

Eugene Bogomazov from Qrator Labs presented a paper during the African Peering and Interconnection Forum that took place on August 23, 2022. The paper highlights the results and conclusions of  measurements taken from several networks in African countries. We publish these results here through this blog. 

In this research, Qrator.Radar team evaluated the African Internet segment and its current state: how many ISPs operate in the region and their relations. Also, the study highlights routing security metrics and transit reliability.

Qrator Labs has become a MANRS partner to pursue more reliable and secure internet routing.

October 4, 2021, has all the chances to become a BGP awareness day.

Memes aside, yesterday, with the entirety of its ecosystem including vast resources like Instagram and WhatsApp, Facebook disappeared from the Internet.

BGP Route leaks vs BGP Hijacks

Since 2014 Qrator Labs has developed a BGP monitoring and analytics service called Qrator.Radar.  One of its main features is monitoring specific BGP anomalies that could result in an incident that we would further call either a BGP route leak or BGP hijack.

Both of them reroute traffic to third parties, compared to the no-anomaly state, but differently. Over the last few years, a lot of efforts have been invested in solving those issues, but there are still misunderstandings about what is what and how different tools are helping resolve different problems.

Yesterday, on February 19 Internet observed yet another demonstration of a handy Noction feature that is probably supposed to get you rich but is more likely to make you infamous.

Starting from 09:48 UTC, we saw around 200 thousand routes of previously non-existent prefixes with broken AS_PATH. But first things first.

The day started with a rather harsh and buzzing sound of email notifications for critical routing events, which, as you can see, are cut off on such a high threshold that we consider those to be global. 

February 11, 2021 - AS28548 - Cablevision - leaked 2828 prefixes, creating 2828 conflicts for 763 ASNs in 80 countries. Maximum propagation: 93%. Severity: High.