Personal blog of Anurag Bhatia

The security of India’s routing infrastructure is something that isn’t discussed as much as cybersecurity, software vulnerabilities, etc.

I have been a heavy restic user for several years.

I find the concept of transit-free / Tier 1 networks fascinating.

Over the weekend I migrated my home router from multiple routing tables to a VRF-based design, placing each WAN uplink into its own VRF.

The recent debate around Airtel’s priority 5G generated plenty of noise.

For the last few days I have been playing with RFC8950 setup, which allows routing of IPv4 on top of IPv6.

Since the Telegram’s prefix hijack (4 days ago on 17-Jun-2026) by RCom, there is visible noise in the BGP routing table from multiple other Indian ISPs, including Tata Teleservices (AS45820) / Lightstorm (AS135709/AS152144), etc. mostly in IPv6.

The last few hours were quite noisy with a lot of discussion around Telegram block and Rcom’s hijack of Telegram prefixes.

In Dec 2022 I mapped popular CDNs like Google GGC, Facebook FNA, Akamai, etc. across Indian networks (post here).

India has done well on IPv6 deployment thanks to Jio taking the lead in 2016, along with Airtel & VI aggressively catching up.

Over the years, I have seen a number of traces between Airtel (AS9498) and Tata Comm (AS4755) in India, which strongly suggests that routing tends to be ‘cold potato’ between them.

Last month (on 18th April 2026), I saw an alert for a strange route announcement: Prefix AS Path Origin ASN 117.120.58.0/23 262427 262761 263444 6453 3257 55836 9498 134863 134863 Background While this specific alert triggered because it had three large I…

For the last few weeks, I have been running a NetFlow collector for the home router.

Friend and his two homes… Recently, a friend of mine mentioned his plan to procure dark fibre to connect two of his homes.

Since 20:08 IST / 14:38 GMT on 28 Jan 2026, the latency between Airtel India and Europe has gone up along with significant packet loss.

Earlier in the day, I came across Liberty Global (AS6830) seemingly originating several Vodafone Romania (AS12302) prefixes.

For the last few days, I have been playing with OpenTofu.

I was in Mumbai a few months ago for the Equinix India Peering forum.

A while back bgp.he.net added the feature of a live route propagation graph for a given prefix.

A while back, I posted about Starlink’s Indian upstream.