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 <[email protected]>
> 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/
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