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_______________________________________________________________________ Best of the APNIC Blog digest - November 2021 ________________________________________________________________________ To help apnic-talk subscribers stay abreast of what the community is reading on the APNIC Blog, we're sharing three of the most popular posts from the previous month. We hope you find the articles informative and useful. Checking prefix filtering in IXPs with BIRD and OpenBGPD -------------------------------------------------------- By Flavio Luciani on 15 November 2021 Route Servers are a critical piece of infrastructure used by prominent
IXPs worldwide. This post explores how to use the two most common
routing daemons for IXPs, BIRD and OpenBGPD. https://s.apnic.net/birdopenbgpd Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible --------------------------------------------------------------- By Hanno Böck on 18 November 2021 Unencrypted email protocols can be upgraded to encrypted via a mechanism called STARTTLS. But recent research revealed more than 40 different
security flaws related to STARTTLS. https://s.apnic.net/starttlsavoid Should information flows be controlled by the Internet plumbers? ---------------------------------------------------------------- By Austin Ruckstuhl on 24 November 2021 In principle, Internet service providers, registries, cloud providers
and other infrastructure intermediaries should be agnostic to the
content that passes over their systems. Yet they're asked to moderate
content. Why? https://s.apnic.net/internetplumbers ________________________________________________________________________ APNIC Secretariat
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