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Show HN: BGP Scout – BGP Network Browser
Hi HN,
When working with BGP data, I kept running into the same friction:
it’s easy to get raw data, but surprisingly hard to browse networks over time — especially by when they appeared, where they operate, and what they actually look like at a glance.
I built a small tool, bgpscout.io, to scratch that itch.
It lets you:
Browse ASNs by registration date and geography
See where a given network appears to have presence
View commonly scattered public data about an ASN in one place
Save searches to track when new networks matching certain criteria appear
All of this data is public already; the goal was to make exploration faster and less painful.
I haven’t invested heavily in expanding it yet. Before doing so, I’m curious:
Is this solving a real problem for you?
What would make something like this actually useful in day-to-day work?
Feedback is welcome.
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- yesod 9mo agoI usually just grab the RIS data from RIPE
- eqvinox 9mo agosame here
- eqvinox 9mo agoSorry, too lazy to sign up just to try it out.
- mrngm 9mo agoThis. It seems your project is at a really early stage. Almost none of the links on the page work, which is too bad, because it could have provided more background information on your goals and wishes. The only thing that seems to work is login through Google, which is a bit much for a demo site. What's going to be the edge above the already excellent https://bgp.tools https://bgp.tools ?
- erinnh 9mo ago>What would make something like this actually useful in day-to-day work? Monitoring of BGP Changes for ASNs. The other stuff isn't something I really need a new tool for. There are other tools by Ripe, HE and the like that already allow me to see historical data. The only point at which I need actual up-to-date to the minute data is during incidents. Hence the monitoring.
- itsamario 9mo agoI use to use pulse turbobytes use tracroute from dozens of networks. I lost count of how many times those results got a peer to acknowledge a forwarding plane discrepancy
- pjf 9mo agoI'd advise to first compare with: - https://bgp.tools/ https://bgp.tools/ - https://bgproutes.io/ https://bgproutes.io/ - https://bgp.he.net/ https://bgp.he.net/ - https://radar.qrator.net/ https://radar.qrator.net/ - https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter ...all of which are (usually) free. IMHO you should have a competing product + money strategy before you continue. Many people have tried (and failed) to make money off BGP. BTW, author of https://bgpipe.org/ https://bgpipe.org/ here, an open-source BGP data tool
- evilmonkey19 9mo agoJust out of curiosity, why did you use Go for bgpipe and Python?
- pjf 9mo agoOne reason is there already was exabgp, written in Python, which in my experience is slow and resource hungry. Golang is much faster, easily portable, and produces static binaries (easy to deploy). Another thing is bgpipe speaks JSON to background (or even remote) packet processors, so basically you can use whatever language you want with it to drive your BGP routers.
- hivedc 9mo agoAwesome - exactly the feedback I was looking for. Thanks a lot!
- hdgvhicv 9mo agoNothing worked from my phone, no videos of what it does. “Free account” didn’t do anything other than change the colour of the button.
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoThis should all be free. That's how pretty much everyone is already getting it. What does this do that cost subscription levels of money?