On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 09:49:34AM +0000, Dobbins, Roland via NANOG wrote:
On May 21, 2025, at 19:04, Nina Bargisen via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
You can read more in our blog at our website.
From the weblog post:
'The looking glass is our first step towards removing the direct telnet access to all collectors.’
Will ssh CLI access replace telnet CLI access?
I hope the future is something like (IETF standardised?) HTTPS-based APIs - in order to support a broader set of user experiences (be it terminal or browser-based). It seems incredibly hard to (continue to) support a terminal-emulator-based unauthenticated query system with virtually no flow-control between client/server, ON THE SERVER DOING THE $THING. A fundamental problem is that some (well meaning?) entities just keep hogging the remote system ala "show ip bgp [ENTER]", and in turn doing awful screenscraping things to extract data out of the system that's already overlaoded doing THE $THING. I'm not sure the answer is as obvious as "replace telnet with SSH", it might be good for us as community to take a step back and reflect on what exactly we hope routeviews does and what the economics ways are to achieve the desired outcomes. Kind regards, Job p.s. Don't get me wrong - I love logging into remote machines around the world through SSH! https://ring.nlnog.net/