Request for BGP Community-to-text mappings for BGP Looking Glass

Dear all,

I'd like to ask help from the EBGP hivemind: the shiny new BGP looking
glass at https://lg.ring.nlnog.net/ supports displaying text strings
mapped from BGP community values (both simple and large communities).

Mapping BGP Community values to simple English human-readable text
phrases can help network operators better understand what the heck is
going on.

An example can be seen here, if you hover your mouse pointer over
2914:3200 you'll see "Europe":
https://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix?q=2001%3A67c%3A208c%3A%3A&match=exact&peer=all

This looking glass does not cache results, it is real time. What's
displayed on the website comes straight from the route collector's BGP
daemon.

Contributing mappings is very easy: just send pull-requests for files
in this directory: lg.ring.nlnog.net/communities at main · NLNOG/lg.ring.nlnog.net · GitHub
The data format supports wildcards and ranges in case blocks of BGP
communities basically mean the same thing.

Please consider submitting what you know! The more the merrier.

[ disclaimer & welcome sign: Anyone can contribute! You don't need to be
  the holder of a given ASN to submit comm2text mappings for that ASN.
  All data is user-submitted. No attempt is made to validate the
  mappings for accuracy. ]

Shout out to Teun Vink for authoring this very pretty webinterface for
OpenBGPD's JSON web API!

Kind regards,

Job

Hi,

Dear all,

I'd like to ask help from the EBGP hivemind: the shiny new BGP looking
glass at https://lg.ring.nlnog.net/ supports displaying text strings
mapped from BGP community values (both simple and large communities).

[…]

Please consider submitting what you know! The more the merrier.

[…]

Hi,

Thanks for bringing this to everyone’s attention, Job! And thanks for all the help getting the LG where it is now :slight_smile:

As an alternative, feel free to send me (off list: teun@teun.tv) a list of communities. But creating a pull request on our Github repository is preferred of course.

Thanks,
Teun

Indeed. It’s been a while since I’d last looked at the NLNOG LG and it’s gotten even more impressive over time…

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