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BGPView - Seeking feedback/suggestions
Hey Guys and Girls.
Been working on a little of a pet project on the side for the last wee while. Feel like finally reached "MVP" stage so I thought I would share the project with like minded internet users and try to get as much feedback and suggestions as I can.
As title suggests, its a BGP Viewer/Visualization tool. Essentially, its a replacement for bgp.he.net. Slightly different data, different presentation, and most importantly there is an open API 
http://docs.bgpview.apiary.io/
As mentioned before, this is pretty much bare basics and by no means done (Have a few things and features planned up ahead), but I would love to get some feedback from LET and see what crucial features they would want to see in such a platform/system to better aid in the everyday 1337 h4x0r life.
Obviously, want this to be the best and most useful it can be.
Cheers
Comments
let see..
looks really nice...
For some purpose, still cannot replace bgp.he.net.
But AFAIK bgp.he.net cannot show how many "upstreams" does a ASN have...
Anyway, this site seems helpful! (I work for a IP Geolocation DB provider so we often access bgp.he.net...)
Looks nice.
First observation - the "Search" does not accept "AS1234" as search input. Instead you should only type "1234". Not a problem, but maybe should be there should be some example given? Or just accept both.
Also our AS shows ARIN for RIR, which is wrong, it is from RIPE.
edit: also the "Valid ROA" column just shows a question mark? Is it todo item?
true, but if you search in the top next to logo, it works.
FDC Servers, shows 0 prefixes
https://bgpview.io/asn/30058
The aim will be give the use no reason to use HE's bgp tool, hence am here asking if you can share what it is exactly that you might be after in terms of features and functionality
If you place
AS1234it should auto magically detect you are looking for an ASN and redirect to that page, as in https://bgpview.io/asn/1234 (was a design choice, not sure ideal or not)Seems it shows as ARIN on the cached search results only (https://bgpview.io/asn/16154 shows correctly it seems) Cheers for that catch, should be fixed now
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They dont announce anything from their ASN, they have all their IP space over Cogentco AS IIRC
Little mistake: When you click on peers/upstream list and switch to ipv6 tab, it should write IPv4 as the last column.
https://bgpview.io/asn/174#upstreams-v6
Totally right, cheers for catch.
true http://bgp.he.net/AS30058
AS30058 has not been visible in the global routing table since March 03, 2016
The information displayed is from that time.
Looks nice! Mobile layout needs to be worked on, a bit more though
Question: How do you determine what upstreams an AS has? I'm not really experienced with this but just wanted to know how you got it, seems pretty accurate.
haha thats being polite. The mobile design (actually, the whole of the design) will be worked on much more a little later, what I have currently is just a quick thing I was able to throw together with bootstrap. I am just not all there when it comes to design/UX so its a slow struggle at times.
We get all our data from BGP tables. We heavily use the Routeviews and RIS tables which are made publicly available and also have a few full tables we collect ourselves.
With a full BGP table you can parse and process the peers essentially seeing how traffic gets to a specific network and who peers with who along the way, and who is who's upstream/downstreams
Looks really good. Got a suggestion though:
Would be nice if I could sort, and collapse records by organisation. So say, I only wanted to see records for "Virgin Media Limited" I could select that, and not all of the other ones.
Nice work!
Looks nice and its a Laravel application
The API ( https://api.bgpview.io/search?query_term=term) ,Does not support IP Search yet ?
It doesn't work
Awesome, but it looks a bit strange on mobile.
I see you import information from peeringdb, maybe this should be mentioned somewhere
I like it.
What about showing information for the visiting IP in the home like bgp.he.net does?
the API has a
ip/{ip}end point which will do the job you are after, same withasnandprefixso I thought searching for those is not needed specifically as their format is distinguishable and searchable that way. Well at least that was my line of thinking, probably wise to simply add IPs/Prefixes to search alsoOh yeah it is :P as mentioned above, it still has mobile/design work. Just not the greatest at that stuff so kinda dreading working it
Yes, with that should also mention the rest of the data sources. While I am at it its:
Wierd, what URL
Is a good and simple idea! ill try to think how to display/fit it. Either home landing homepage or maybe small link that you can click and follow info in the nav or something.
Nice!
Actually you may need to query NIRs' DB too...
AFAIK there are some NIRs...
APNIC: CNNIC, KRNIC, JPNIC, TWNIC, VNNIC, APJII, IRINN...
Lacnic: NIC.mx, NIC.br
Especially Lacnic area, seems Mexicans and Brazilians cannot go directly with Lacnic...
@Zappie It works now (it was probably something temporary)
EDIT: You should add validation for ex. local IPs, because that seems to trigger the error too
You are right, but considering that the NIR whois entries essentially get propagated upwards as a referral object to the RIR whois query I feel there is no value to store the specific output from the NIR. It will be some significant processing power to go through extra hops when doing the whois queries (currently one of the most resource and time intensive tasks to get done on project)
Good call, added some basic and initial error handling to be able to handle rfc1918 addresses
After the missing features like DNS and some basic eye candy graphs are done on the site the upcoming plan will be to add a user auth system when people can register and subscribe to change alerts in IX, BGP, Prefixes, ASN and Whois resources. So pretty much if you subscribe to get notified for changes on AS1234 you'll get an email when new peers/upstream/ips/whois gets added/removed/altered (checked done twice a day for changed sort of deal)
something like this (Example screenshot I took from email)
Does not look too good on mobile phones..
@Zappie How do I subscribe? Looks like a good way for peeps to be informed about networks they care about haha
Well thats the idea, monitor your own infras and also your competitors. Or just stuff you are curious about.
Anyways, currently its a wee while before you will be seeing this added feature as its in its absolute infancy .
Feel free to PM/Email your email address and list of resources (ASN/Prefixes/IX) you want to monitor and ill manually add it to the list, Just note, its in mega alpha stages.
bgpview.io is offline, bgpview is very useful, hopefully it will be fixed.
The monitoring feature sounds awesome, by the way.
It is.