About the MBNOG Looking Glass

This Looking Glass is hosted by MBNOG, The Manitoba Network Operators Group. The Looking Glass runs OpenBGPD as backend and a custom made front end written by Teun Vink, for which the source code can be found on GitHub. The code was inspired on bird-lg by Mehdi Abaakouk.

The Looking Glass is managed by the MBNOG Administrators which can be reached at [email protected]. You can contact them for questions, reporting issues or setting up new BGP sessions with the Looking Glass server.

Known BGP Communities

This Looking Glass uses a collection of known BGP communities to provide additional information on routes received. A list of ASNs for which communities are known can be found here.

New community descriptions and updates can be added sending a pull request on the Github repostory, which also provides information on the file format. For any questions, feel free to contact the [email protected].

Peering with the Looking Glass

Peering with this Looking Glass is optional for ring users. If you want to peer with MBNOG Looking Glass, send us your details or create a pull-request, and configure a session with the following information:

    AS: 65204
    IPv4: 192.160.102.94 (lg02.infra.mbnog.ca)
    IPv6: 2620:132:3003:520::2 (lg02.infra.mbnog.ca)
    Type: eBGP Multi-Hop
    Policy: import NONE from AS65204, export ANY

Our looking glass supports 'add-path', so if supported on your side, feel free to configure it.

Sponsor

Hosting of this Looking Glass is generously sponsored by Hextet Systems.

Changelog

Here's a very incomplete list of some of the changes to this looking glass:

    2022-12-30  - fix for confederations in maps
                - allow selections of peers to query
                - added colored nodes to maps
                - allow download of dot source for maps

    2022-11-22  - add the possibility to store preferences in cookies
                - add AS numbers on the BGP peer summary page
                - add a favicon!

    2022-11-13  - add a 'persistent link' option so results can be stored
                - add a 'copy to clipboard' option on the plain text output page
                - sort on prefixlen and then peer names in the output
                - link the small map to the full size map
                - nicer plain text output

    2022-09-21  - add support for map output

    2022-09-19  - first public release