RTRTR – The RPKI Express Mail Service

RTRTR is a companion tool to Routinator that collects, processes, and serves validated RPKI data from multiple sources. The source data can be provided in different formats and the produced data can be provided in different formats.

This is the very first iteration of RTRTR, however. For now, it only operates a simple RTR proxy: It collects validated RPKI data from Routinator or some other RPKI relying party software via RTR and serves this data via RTR. This way, the data provided by a centralized relying party software can be distributed to RTR servers in multiple locations, allowing routers to only connect to local servers.

Over time, RTRTR will gain more and more capabilities. Stay tuned!

Quick Start

If you have already installed Routinator, this should all be somewhat familiar.

Assuming you have a newly installed Debian or Ubuntu machine, you will need to install the C toolchain and Rust. You can then install RTRTR and start it up serving RTR listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3323 and collecting data from two upstream RTR caches on 127.0.0.1 port 3324 and 127.0.0.1 port 3325. Note that RTRTR will use the first server as long as it is available and will only fall back to the second one if the first one fails.

apt install rsync build-essential
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source ~/.cargo/env
cargo install  --git https://github.com/NLnetLabs/rtrtr.git
rtrtr --rtr-listen 127.0.0.1:3323 \
  --rtr-server 127.0.0.1:3324 --rtr-server 127.0.0.1:3325

If you have an older version of Rust and RTRTR, you can update using

rustup update
cargo install  --git -f https://github.com/NLnetLabs/rtrtr.git