BLACKHOLE BGP Community

Goal

The introduction of a well-known Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) community for destination-based blackholing in IP networks. This well-known advisory transitive BGP community named BLACKHOLE allows an origin AS to specify that a neighboring network should discard any traffic destined towards the tagged IP prefix.

Status

• Task accomplished: RFC 7999: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7999
• Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-blackholing/

Supporting ISPs and IXPs

If you want to be listed please drop me mail: thomas.king@de-cix.net

Supporting ISPs

ISP	Information
KPN (AS286)	https://as286.net/AS286-communities.html
SysEleven (AS25291)	https://isp.syseleven.net/communities/#communities-for-customers
Strato AG (AS6724)
Individual Network Berlin e.V. (AS29670)
Coloclue (AS8283)
Fusix Networks (AS57866)
BelWü (AS553)

Supporting IXPs

IXP	Information
DE-CIX FRA, NYC, MAD, DUS, MUC, HAM, IST, PMO, MRS, DFW	https://de-cix.net/en/services/globepeer/blackholing
NYIIX	http://www.nyiix.net/rtbh/
CIX.HR	https://www.cix.hr/o-cix-u/infrastruktura/route-server
Community-IX	https://www.community-ix.de/technik/
LAIIX	http://www.laiix.net/rtbh/
Equinix Ashburn, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Palo Alto, San Jose, Seattle, Toronto, Vienna, Geneva, Paris, Zurich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Osaka, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo	http://www.sanog.org/resources/sanog28/SANOG28-Conference_RTBH-Safiudeen.pdf
MSK-IX Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Stavropol, Samara, Kazan, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok	http://kb.msk-ix.ru/en/ix/services/route-server/#ddos
SIX Seattle	https://www.seattleix.net/blackholing
France IX Paris and Marseille	https://www.franceix.net/en/technical/blackholing/
NIX.CZ	https://www.nix.cz/en/technical#rs
SwissIX	Documentation
BIX	only one, no redistribution to Peers Documentation

Supporting Anti-DDoS Software

Software	Implementation Status	Information
FastNetMon	Done	Description
arouteserver	Done	Description

Supporting BGP Speakers

BGP Speaker	Implementation Status
BIRD	Done
GoBGP	Done
OpenBGPD	Done - Usage hint: "allow from any community BLACKHOLE set nexthop blackhole"
ExaBGP	Done
Nokia	Requested
Cisco	Open
Juniper	Open
Brocade	Open
Huawei	Open

History

2014

• Euro-IX tech mailing list: Discussion on commonly agreed BLACKHOLE community
• 25th Euro-IX Forum: Presentation and panel about Blackholing
• Work on an “Internet Draft” started. Authors: King, Dietzel (DE-CIX), Döring (SpaceNet), Hankins (Alu), Jiran (NIX.CZ), Kritski (NetIX), Seitz (STRATO)

2015

• Draft of “Internet Draft” discussed on the Euro-IX tech mailing list
• “Internet Draft” submitted to IETF GROW working group
• Discussion on the GROW mailing list and during the IETF 93
• Requests from Euro-IX and GROW:
• Also add ISPs
• Be more specific about “Operations Recommendations”
• Call for “Working Group” adaption

2016

• Working Group Last Call – all few changes
• Release of RFC 7999

Special Thanks

• Euro-IX
• GROW Working Group
• ECO KG Gruppe Netz Infrastruktur