When a Bad ROA Looks Like a Nation-State Attack
A mistyped ROA can blackhole a brand worldwide on networks that enforce RPKI. Tell a routing-origin outage from a hijack using validator, lookup, and looking glass.
THE BGPLOOKUP JOURNAL
Category: <span>RPKI & Route Security</span>
How to Spot a BGP Hijack With Free Tools
Recognize BGP origin hijacks, more-specific leaks, and route leaks using live IP lookup, looking glass AS paths, RPKI ROA checks, and traceroute.
RPKI in Plain English: Stop Origin Hijacks Before They Start
How RPKI and Route Origin Authorization work, what valid/invalid/unknown mean, and how to check a prefix and ASN with a free RPKI validator.
IRR vs RPKI: why you still need both fences
RPKI tells you if an origin is authorized. IRR tells you if a human wrote it down. I will not drop either because a conference talk said one of them is dead.
RPKI validation in plain English (and why “unknown” still keeps me up)
RPKI is not a certificate on a website. It is a signed note that says who is allowed to announce a prefix — and the internet is still uneven about believing it.