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Recordings on BGP, DN42, IRR, RPKI and ASPA from operator communities and training organisations.
BGP and routing-security video library
These recordings go with the courses, they don't replace them. Watch the beginner material first, try what you saw in a lab, and take production commands from current documentation.
Suggested order
- APNIC Routing Fundamentals course.
- APNIC Introduction to BGP course or the workshop playlist.
- DE-CIX BGP video playlist.
- BGP und OSPF, or Routing and DN42.
- BGP communities 101.
- RIPE NCC webinars on the IRR and BGP filtering.
- RIPE NCC webinars Introduction to RPKI and Deploying RPKI.
- Securing your Router with RPKI.
- ASPA in the RPKI Dashboard.
- The RIPE 92 talks on ASPA.
Routing and BGP basics
APNIC IPv4/IPv6 BGP workshop
APNIC, English, YouTube playlist, beginner to intermediate. Starts with Internet and routing basics and works up to BGP and IPv6. Watch the workshop playlist
Intro to BGP
APNIC, English, beginner. The introductory session from the APNIC BGP workshop. Watch on YouTube
DE-CIX BGP video playlist
DE-CIX Academy, English, YouTube playlist, beginner to intermediate. BGP, prefixes, autonomous systems and peering, explained by people who run an IXP. Watch the DE-CIX BGP playlist
BGP und OSPF: wie das Internet funktioniert
Christoph Egger, FrOSCon 2016, German, 49 minutes, beginner. How Internet routing works and how to experiment with it on DN42. Watch on media.ccc.de
iBGP Fundamentals
Routing Days 2016, German, 14 minutes, intermediate. A short introduction to BGP inside your own AS. Watch on media.ccc.de
DN42
Routing and DN42: a network to learn and practise
Frederic Jaeckel, Easterhegg 2010, English, 42 minutes, beginner to intermediate. Why DN42 exists and how it was built. Much has changed since 2010; use the current DN42 wiki for registry and configuration details. Watch on media.ccc.de
Policy and communities
BGP communities 101
Gert Döring, DENOG10 2018, English, 31 minutes, intermediate. What communities are and the common ways networks use them. Watch on media.ccc.de
Protect your edge, BGP security made simple
Theo Voss, DENOG 2016, English, 26 minutes, intermediate. How filters, generated policy and RPKI fit together at a network edge. Watch on media.ccc.de
IRR, RPSL and filter generation
The whois protocol for Internet routing policy
Ties de Kock and becha, 38C3 2024, English and German audio, 54 minutes, intermediate. How plain-text whois data becomes router filters, where trust breaks down, and how RPKI relates to it. Watch on media.ccc.de
RPKI
RPKI
Martin Hoffmann, DENOG10 2018, English, 8 minutes, beginner. A very short introduction to the idea. Watch on media.ccc.de
Securing your Router with RPKI
GPN19 2019, English, 25 minutes, intermediate. A small network deploys validation with free software. The commands are from 2019; check current validator and router documentation. Watch on media.ccc.de
BGP Routing Security: Hijacks vs RPKI
RIPE NCC at NetUK, English, beginner to intermediate. What a hijack is and how origin validation helps. Watch on YouTube
RIPE NCC BGP webinar recordings
RIPE NCC, English, beginner to advanced. Recordings on the Internet Routing Registry, Introduction to RPKI, Deploying RPKI and BGP filtering. Open the recordings
RIPE NCC Academy videos
RIPE NCC, English. Short course introductions and explanations from RIPE NCC trainers. RIPE NCC Academy playlist on YouTube
ASPA and route leaks
ASPA in the RPKI Dashboard
Tim Bruijnzeels, RIPE 91 2025, English, intermediate to advanced. What ASPA is and how to create one in the RIPE NCC dashboard. Watch the RIPE 91 recording
Why is ASPA still a draft?
Maria Matejka, RIPE 92 2026, English, advanced. The open questions in standardisation and deployment. Watch the RIPE 92 recording
Six Months of ASPA
Tim Bruijnzeels, RIPE 92 2026, English, advanced. What the first months of ASPA signing in the RIPE region showed. Watch the RIPE 92 recording
Do not drop ASPA invalids of the last resort
Ondřej Caletka, RIPE 92 2026, English, 10 minutes, advanced. The RIPE 92 meeting network dropped ASPA-invalid paths and ran into reachability problems nobody expected. A good argument for not rejecting a route when it is the only one you have. Watch the RIPE 92 recording