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RIS Statistics Report
by Generic RIS account 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

RIS Statistics Report (20031111-20031117) This report was generated at Mon Nov 17 00:15:01 UTC 2003. It analyses the BGP Routing Tables which are collected by RIS Remote Collectors at different locations around the world. Check http://www.ris.ripe.net/weekly-report/ for more info. o Prefix Distribution RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 rrc10 APNIC 22837 22833 16773 16214 22197 21781 22057 9139 21282 18404 0 ARIN 57001 56875 39346 46250 56656 55340 55637 16224 53688 42271 0 LACNIC 5372 5372 4275 4631 5291 5340 5286 2697 5089 4001 0 RIPE NCC 35913 20880 17123 12510 35537 20332 19515 10814 16887 15749 0 OLD 29729 29320 18700 20055 29283 28714 28485 9600 26540 22478 0 IANA 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 RFC1918 7 5 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 OTHER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 150861 135287 96218 99661 148972 131508 130981 48475 123487 102904 0 AS number distributions wrt RIR and single-homed/multi-homed. o ASes per RIR region RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 rrc10 ARIN 9507 9485 7697 8415 9469 9445 9437 4264 9302 8197 0 APNIC 1920 1906 1629 1519 1914 1887 1904 982 1868 1715 0 RIPE NCC 4997 4970 4412 3633 4990 4946 4659 3305 4474 4306 1 LACNIC 41 40 34 38 41 40 41 29 37 34 0 IANA 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 Private 21 16 14 11 19 8 17 9 10 6 0 Others 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 16487 16418 13787 13617 16434 16327 16059 8590 15692 14258 1 o Number of single-homed ASes. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 rrc10 ARIN 2948 3179 3566 4111 3277 5147 3702 1823 4319 4556 0 APNIC 561 604 687 713 657 992 751 380 759 742 0 RIPE NCC 1446 1708 1740 1498 1630 2565 1799 1457 1877 2047 1 LACNIC 19 19 18 23 19 23 22 15 17 16 0 IANA 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 Private 13 10 6 5 11 4 10 5 6 4 0 Others 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 4988 5521 6018 6351 5595 8732 6285 3681 6979 7365 1 o Number of multi-homed ASes. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 rrc10 ARIN 6559 6306 4131 4304 6192 4298 5735 2441 4983 3641 0 APNIC 1359 1302 942 806 1257 895 1153 602 1109 973 0 RIPE NCC 3551 3262 2672 2135 3360 2381 2860 1848 2597 2259 0 LACNIC 22 21 16 15 22 17 19 14 20 18 0 IANA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Private 8 6 8 6 8 4 7 4 4 2 0 Others 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 11499 10897 7769 7266 10839 7595 9774 4909 8713 6893 0 IANA : AS31818 Distribution of AS number wrt Leaf, Transit. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 rrc10 Leaf 13631 13719 11319 11310 13700 13877 13376 6592 13169 11915 1 Transit 2750 2603 2220 2014 2629 2362 2552 1414 2354 2104 0 Transit-only 106 96 248 293 105 88 131 584 169 239 0 Total 16487 16418 13787 13617 16434 16327 16059 8590 15692 14258 1 o Average ASPATH length. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 rrc10 Avg 6.01 6.01 5.82 5.63 6.00 6.05 5.72 6.46 6.16 5.53 1.00 Std 2.35 2.36 2.45 2.37 2.32 2.39 2.31 2.21 2.39 2.39 0.00 o List of martians appearing throughout the week. Prefix Origin AS 172.16.1.0/24 24587 172.16.2.0/24 24587 172.16.10.140/32 2529 172.16.32.99/32 2529 172.16.32.113/32 2529 172.16.32.140/32 2529 172.16.32.200/32 2529 o List of hot-spots during the week. Prefix Origin AS Number of updates 210.16.105.0/24 4759 238201 12.24.48.0/24 26419 176407 12.7.51.0/24 26419 176310 192.55.84.0/24 6666 170760 12.24.49.0/24 26419 170036 195.68.96.0/24 16101 154291 193.41.194.0/24 16101 115351 209.32.168.0/21 14367 110402 202.79.53.0/24 17501 98953 170.16.0.0/16 3762 88695 Total number of RIS BGP peering sessions: 319

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Remote Route Collector (RRC10) at MIX
by Matthew Williams 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear All, The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that the RIS Project's Remote Route Collector, RRC10, is now ready to peer with members at the Milan Internet Exchange (MIX): - ---------------------------------------------- RRC10 is located at the Milan Internet Exchange in Italy. It is the tenth collector to be deployed by the RIS and has been operational since November 2003. RRC10 has an interface on the shared MIX fabric (IPv4 and IPv6 VLANs) and collects routing information from all exchange members willing to peer with us. Our details: - - Peering addresses: 217.29.66.6 (IPv4), 2001:7f8:b:a:1d1:a5d1:2654:6 (IPv6) - - Autonomous system: 12654 - - Email: rispeering(a)ripe.net Please send your peering requests to the address above or use the web form at URL: http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/peerreg.cgi Peering Policy: http://www.ripe.net/ris/rrc10.html The Routing Information Service (RIS), which started as a modest RIPE NCC project in 1999, has gradually grown to over 200 peers (IPv4/IPv6) at now eleven data collection points in Europe, Japan and North America. Our mission is to collect BGP routing information over a function of time and make it available to the Community. In essence, this means devising tools that can help ISPs debug problems over time without being limited to a BGP view, and providing RIS raw data regarding the Internet's historical development. For more information about the RIS: http://www.ripe.net/ris/ - ------------------------------------------------ Please send your comments to ris(a)ripe.net. Best regards, The RIS Team --- > Matthew Williams (MW243-RIPE) > Customer Liaison Engineer > RIPE NCC - http://www.ripe.net/np/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBP7TYkcHkFbJe+GdoEQIbbQCdHwGwAmy0lNWGNVfmRUgVLoGENUUAn0/t v3VF+LcCHZACfnnToqAE33Xf =VVnn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RIS Statistics Report
by Generic RIS account 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

RIS Statistics Report (20031104-20031110) This report was generated at Mon Nov 10 00:15:01 UTC 2003. It analyses the BGP Routing Tables which are collected by RIS Remote Collectors at different locations around the world. Check http://www.ris.ripe.net/weekly-report/ for more info. o Prefix Distribution RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 APNIC 22752 22742 21911 21662 21996 21625 21895 22354 21837 21496 ARIN 58424 58279 57454 57185 57868 56513 57726 58023 56606 55521 LACNIC 5241 5240 5146 5098 5187 5209 5209 5239 5239 5136 RIPE NCC 36902 21753 21234 20594 36417 20420 20813 20580 21217 20209 OLD 30145 29541 28342 27686 29482 28831 29306 28932 29245 28366 IANA 5 4 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 1 RFC1918 66 3 4 3 63 3 0 0 3 0 OTHER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 153535 137562 134094 132231 151017 132604 134952 135131 134150 130729 AS number distributions wrt RIR and single-homed/multi-homed. o ASes per RIR region RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 ARIN 9510 9485 9407 9365 9472 9449 9476 9411 9473 9417 APNIC 1920 1906 1907 1878 1914 1885 1904 1898 1899 1873 RIPE NCC 4975 4951 4956 4932 4966 4927 4953 4925 4938 4919 LACNIC 38 38 37 37 38 38 38 38 38 36 IANA 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 Private 22 14 14 11 18 10 19 7 10 7 Others 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Total 16467 16396 16322 16224 16409 16311 16391 16280 16360 16252 o Number of single-homed ASes. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 ARIN 2868 3139 3923 5194 3358 5139 3811 5766 3493 5083 APNIC 551 591 743 925 663 1013 706 1066 693 882 RIPE NCC 1379 1692 1785 2326 1590 2586 1815 2817 1789 2621 LACNIC 17 19 19 22 19 23 20 23 20 19 IANA 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 Private 8 5 4 3 7 4 7 2 5 5 Others 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Total 4825 5448 6475 8471 5638 8767 6360 9675 6002 8610 o Number of multi-homed ASes. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 ARIN 6642 6346 5484 4171 6114 4310 5665 3645 5980 4334 APNIC 1369 1315 1164 953 1251 872 1198 832 1206 991 RIPE NCC 3596 3259 3171 2606 3376 2341 3138 2108 3149 2298 LACNIC 21 19 18 15 19 15 18 15 18 17 IANA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Private 14 9 10 8 11 6 12 5 5 2 Others 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 11642 10948 9847 7753 10771 7544 10031 6605 10358 7642 IANA : AS65535 Others: AS65535 Distribution of AS number wrt Leaf, Transit. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 Leaf 13609 13686 13684 13790 13659 13857 13716 13892 13728 13802 Transit 2745 2606 2540 2347 2643 2360 2577 2301 2536 2367 Transit-only 113 104 98 87 107 94 98 87 96 83 Total 16467 16396 16322 16224 16409 16311 16391 16280 16360 16252 o Average ASPATH length. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 Avg 5.91 5.85 5.56 5.49 5.94 6.02 5.84 6.04 5.93 5.29 Std 2.29 2.29 2.37 2.32 2.29 2.41 2.30 2.10 2.25 2.28 o List of martians appearing throughout the week. Prefix Origin AS 10.0.0.0/8 12626 10.127.32.0/24 25186 10.129.113.0/24 25186 10.129.131.0/24 25186 172.16.0.0/24 8548 172.16.1.0/24 24587 172.16.2.0/24 24587 172.20.0.0/16 12626 192.0.2.1/32 3301 192.168.2.132/30 2200 o List of hot-spots during the week. Prefix Origin AS Number of updates 210.16.105.0/24 4759 178878 209.32.168.0/21 14367 93556 202.79.53.0/24 17501 93274 207.191.56.0/24 4519 82397 207.191.47.0/24 4519 82384 205.136.140.0/24 19029 53512 208.251.117.0/24 25909 43796 66.227.90.0/24 19579 43515 202.28.47.0/24 4621 38188 202.28.46.0/24 4621 38184 Total number of RIS BGP peering sessions: 313

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Announcing RISwhois - RIPE NCC IPv4/IPv6 address to origin mapping
by Rene Wilhelm 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

[Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear All, RIPE NCC is pleased to announce RISwhois, a new interface to the BGP data collected by the Routing Information Service (RIS). Using a set of ten Remote Route Collectors (RRCs) installed at different locations around the world, the RIS collects BGP information from over 200 IPv4 and IPv6 peers. RISwhois complements our existing prefix query and looking glass tools by providing a higher level view over an entire set of RRC routing tables. The service looks up IPv4 or IPv6 addresses in the most recently collected full RIB dumps and reports the prefixes and origin AS numbers that match the specified IP, as well as the RRCs on which the prefixes were seen. This can help users in obtaining a quick answer on route visibility (i.e. where is it seen, how widely does it spread) and in assigning origin AS numbers to IP numbers in applications such as traceroute. RISwhois listens to the whois port (port 43) and outputs data in a format very similar to the route objects specified in RPSL. Thus applications that, to date, consult a routing registry, like whois.ra.net, can easily obtain more accurate IP to AS assignments by contacting the RISwhois server, riswhois.ripe.net, instead. For example, a study in the context of RIPE NCC's Test Traffic Measurements found 21% of a set of unique IPs unmatched when using the routing registry vs. only 1% unmatched when using RIS data. For more information see: http://www.ripe.net/ris/riswhois.html Please send your comments to ris(a)ripe.net. Best regards, For the RIS team, -- Rene =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rene Wilhelm RIPE Network Coordination Centre Email: wilhelm(a)ripe.net Amsterdam, the Netherlands Phone: +31 20 535 4444 http://www.ripe.net/ris =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Re: NOTIFICATION: RIS BGP Resets on Tuesday, 4th November
by James Aldridge 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

James Aldridge wrote: > All RIS Remote Route Collectors will have their BGP processes restarted > tomorrow (4 November 2003) between 12:00 and 18:00 UTC. BGP sessions will be > reset which will result in additional BGP update activity in our data. Since the times below, all RRCs are now running the latest release of the Quagga BGP daemon. rrc00 Tue Nov 4, 15:02 UTC (plus a couple of earlier restarts between 12:30 and 15:00 while tracking down a file access problem) rrc01 Tue Nov 4, 14:27 UTC rrc02 Tue Nov 4, 14:44 UTC rrc03 Tue Nov 4, 14:45 UTC rrc04 Tue Nov 4, 14:49 UTC rrc05 Tue Nov 4, 14:50 UTC rrc06 Tue Nov 4, 14:54 UTC rrc07 Tue Nov 4, 14:57 UTC rrc08 Tue Nov 4, 14:58 UTC This work is now complete. Regards, The RIS Team

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NOTIFICATION: RIS BGP Resets on Tuesday, 4th November
by James Aldridge 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Dear All, RIS Notification: ----------------- All RIS Remote Route Collectors will have their BGP processes restarted tomorrow (4 November 2003) between 12:00 and 18:00 UTC. BGP sessions will be reset which will result in additional BGP update activity in our data. The reason for this work is to improve the validity of collected IPv6 data. Best regards, The RIS Team

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RIS Statistics Report
by Generic RIS account 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

RIS Statistics Report (20031028-20031103) This report was generated at Mon Nov 3 00:15:01 UTC 2003. It analyses the BGP Routing Tables which are collected by RIS Remote Collectors at different locations around the world. Check http://www.ris.ripe.net/weekly-report/ for more info. o Prefix Distribution RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 APNIC 22298 22288 21757 21565 21821 0 20364 22166 21581 10797 ARIN 58627 58620 57231 57091 58112 0 48187 57548 56955 19856 LACNIC 5166 5165 5091 5091 5111 0 4604 5164 5164 2581 RIPE NCC 36212 20726 20558 20399 35470 0 16934 20388 20976 9809 OLD 29881 29569 28158 27941 29404 0 23478 28905 29186 10154 IANA 5 5 3 3 4 0 3 4 3 2 RFC1918 5 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 OTHER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 152194 136374 132798 132091 149926 0 113570 134175 133865 53199 AS number distributions wrt RIR and single-homed/multi-homed. o ASes per RIR region RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 ARIN 9504 9475 9409 9367 9462 0 8644 9408 9455 4629 APNIC 1906 1892 1897 1868 1901 0 1843 1880 1885 1134 RIPE NCC 4952 4918 4927 4907 4938 0 4213 4900 4913 3150 LACNIC 39 39 37 37 39 0 37 39 39 30 IANA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Private 20 12 11 7 16 0 10 7 7 2 Others 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 Total 16422 16337 16282 16186 16357 0 14747 16235 16300 8945 o Number of single-homed ASes. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 ARIN 2971 3190 3533 4773 3326 0 3643 4937 4336 1987 APNIC 567 611 710 835 665 0 743 992 773 468 RIPE NCC 1422 1716 1743 2374 1730 0 1685 2505 2366 1232 LACNIC 20 21 20 22 20 0 22 23 22 18 IANA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Private 9 6 3 2 6 0 4 2 2 1 Others 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Total 4989 5545 6010 8006 5747 0 6097 8460 7500 3706 o Number of multi-homed ASes. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 ARIN 6533 6285 5876 4594 6136 0 5001 4471 5119 2642 APNIC 1339 1281 1187 1033 1236 0 1100 888 1112 666 RIPE NCC 3530 3202 3184 2533 3208 0 2528 2395 2547 1918 LACNIC 19 18 17 15 19 0 15 16 17 12 IANA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Private 11 6 8 5 10 0 6 5 5 1 Others 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Total 11433 10792 10272 8180 10610 0 8650 7775 8800 5239 Others: AS65535 o List of martians appearing throughout the week. Prefix Origin AS 10.0.6.0/24 25232 172.16.0.0/13 38 192.168.2.132/30 2200 Total number of RIS BGP peering sessions: 311

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Updated Version of the RIS Looking Glass
by Matthew Williams 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear All, RIPE NCC is pleased to announce its updated version of the RIS Looking Glass: - --------------------------------------------- New features include: * IPv6 support * Addition of RRC09 * Checks on regular expressions to avoid showing the entire BGP table The RIS Looking Glass is available at URL: http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/lg/index.cgi. Special thanks to Netlantis, see http://www.netlantis.org/, for their assistance with RRC09. - ---------------------------------------------- More information about the RIS can be found at http://www.ripe.net/ris/. Please send your feedback to ris(a)ripe.net. Best regards, The RIS team --- > Matthew Williams (MW243-RIPE) > Customer Liaison Engineer > RIPE NCC - http://www.ripe.net/np/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBP6FKs8HkFbJe+GdoEQJsIwCfb3TCPcxv+sLyk61uvP05tbz7lIEAoNqB htxVhVPzlRKAdIj1DtwLtBPa =lWqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RIS Statistics Report
by Generic RIS account 27 Oct '03

27 Oct '03

RIS Statistics Report (20031021-20031027) This report was generated at Mon Oct 27 00:15:01 UTC 2003. It analyses the BGP Routing Tables which are collected by RIS Remote Collectors at different locations around the world. Check http://www.ris.ripe.net/weekly-report/ for more info. o Prefix Distribution RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 APNIC 21991 21927 16419 21147 21362 18612 14963 10623 21214 11333 ARIN 56720 56648 32976 55289 55456 54222 28095 19665 55345 19955 LACNIC 5120 5120 3415 5056 5066 4998 3277 2245 5116 2500 RIPE NCC 36861 21462 16162 20296 36264 16145 14971 10428 20752 9625 OLD 29388 29127 16504 27501 28872 26143 16917 11106 28878 10186 IANA 6 6 4 4 4 1 4 4 4 1 RFC1918 59 0 0 1 59 0 0 0 0 0 OTHER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 150145 134290 85480 129294 147083 120121 78227 54071 131309 53600 AS number distributions wrt RIR and single-homed/multi-homed. o ASes per RIR region RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 ARIN 9473 9445 6748 9336 9415 9289 6655 4828 9328 4820 APNIC 1899 1883 1749 1859 1888 1759 1510 1141 1773 1218 RIPE NCC 4931 4896 4310 4888 4919 4144 4025 3250 4119 3123 LACNIC 37 37 33 36 37 36 31 24 37 22 IANA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Private 19 12 12 4 13 4 6 5 8 2 Others 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 Total 16360 16274 12853 16123 16273 15233 12227 9249 15266 9185 o Number of single-homed ASes. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 ARIN 2990 3562 3000 5306 3573 5152 2655 2252 3582 2080 APNIC 565 630 715 886 687 978 537 491 695 490 RIPE NCC 1411 1769 1736 2339 1671 2109 1574 1355 1678 1274 LACNIC 16 20 19 20 18 21 16 12 17 9 IANA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Private 7 5 4 2 5 2 3 2 5 1 Others 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 Total 4989 5986 5474 8553 5954 8263 4785 4113 5977 3854 o Number of multi-homed ASes. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 ARIN 6483 5883 3748 4030 5842 4137 4000 2576 5746 2740 APNIC 1334 1253 1034 973 1201 781 973 650 1078 728 RIPE NCC 3520 3127 2574 2549 3248 2035 2451 1895 2441 1849 LACNIC 21 17 14 16 19 15 15 12 20 13 IANA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Private 12 7 8 2 8 2 3 3 3 1 Others 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 Total 11371 10288 7379 7570 10319 6970 7442 5136 9289 5331 Others: AS65535 Distribution of AS number wrt Leaf, Transit. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 Leaf 13525 13610 10426 13695 13575 12890 9832 7226 12753 7106 Transit 2725 2567 2136 2343 2599 2151 2017 1498 2318 1542 Transit-only 110 97 291 85 99 192 378 525 195 537 Total 16360 16274 12853 16123 16273 15233 12227 9249 15266 9185 o Average ASPATH length. RIS rrc00 rrc01 rrc02 rrc03 rrc04 rrc05 rrc06 rrc07 rrc08 Avg 6.22 6.13 5.93 5.48 6.30 5.88 6.07 6.36 6.31 5.75 Std 2.67 2.39 2.78 2.36 2.94 2.21 2.46 2.21 2.39 2.49 o List of martians appearing throughout the week. Prefix Origin AS 172.18.80.64/30 4766 192.168.2.132/30 2200 Total number of RIS BGP peering sessions: 311

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RIS developments
by James Aldridge 24 Oct '03

24 Oct '03

Over the last couple of weeks, a group of people using the RIS (data) decided to hold a phone conference in order to discuss future development plans for the RIS as well as other things, that were hard to discuss by email. Below you can find the minutes of this meeting. We agreed to post the minutes of this meeting here, so everybody can see what we discussed. If you have comments on our discussion, feel free to post them to this list. We agreed to hold another phone conference in a couple of weeks. This will be an open forum. If you want to participate in future phone conferences, please send mail to ris(a)ripe.net and we'll provide you with technical details. Comments, suggestions and ideas by email to ris-users(a)ripe.net are also welcome. Regards, James -- James Aldridge, Network Engineer, New Projects Group, RIPE NCC Tel: +31 20 535 4444 Fax: +31 20 535 4445 Singel 258 P.O. Box 10096 1016 AB Amsterdam 1001 AB Amsterdam The Netherlands The Netherlands ---------- Notes on the RIS conference call 18:00 CET, 16 October 2003 Participants: RIPE NCC: Henk Uijterwaal, James Aldridge, Matthew Williams, Arife Vural, Lorenzo Colitti, Rene Wilhelm; Agilent: Alex Tudor, Lance Tatman, Jerry McCollom, Hong-Wei Kong; Technical University Munich: Olaf Maennel Dan Ardelean (Purdue) and Z. Morley Mao (Berkeley) provided input but were unable to participate in the conference call. Scribe: James Aldridge Agenda: 1. RIPE NCC "ip2asn" service 2. Zebra/Quagga and libbgpdump 3. Beacons 4. CVS server 5. BGP decoder 6. Keepalive issues 7. Future merge with zebra 1. ip2asn Rene Wilhelm gave an update on the current status: - nearing completion - raw data read from 8-hourly RIS RIB dumps - structure built in memory - "whois" server returns a (partial) RPSL "route" object for compatibility with existing RIR-based tools. Is this sufficient? OK as a first try, but want more... summarise traceroute as AS hops, etc. This would be for the traceroute application to perform; ip2asn just provides a BGP-based mapping between IP address and origin AS(es). Is there a demand for a standalone IP to ASN server returning additional information (incorporating database of IXP address ranges, etc)? Rene will provide sample output from the current ip2asn server. 2. zebra, libbgpdump Lorenzo Colitti presented an update on changes to libbgpdump and zebra (/quagga). - bug fixes - dealing with data corruption - segmentation faults - infinite loops - IPv6 support - direct gzip support (using zlib) Importance of multi-platform support was emphasised (make it easy to build on more systems than just FreeBSD, Linux, etc.; use "sh ./configure", etc) Need a test plan for future changes: - test data (known input) - regression testing on output produced Need to document library's behaviour for specific cases of bad input data. Needs to report back statistics from processing input file (in Hong Wei's version?) Summary of libbgpdump-1.3.1 - backward compatible for input data - baseline release for further integration Aim towards a replacement for "route_btoa". 3. beacons James Aldridge summarised recent changes to the RIS BGP beacons following input from the research community - timestamps and sequence numbers on announcements by overloading the AGGREGATOR attribute (similar to the PSG beacons) - anchor prefix (195.80.239.0/24) advertised by each RRC with per-RRC AGGREGATOR values. Proposal to monitor RIS beacon announcements and withdrawals using an additional bgpd with multi-hop EBGP peerings with each RRC was greeted with interest. James will implement this and make the beacon reference updates alongside other RIS raw data. - Proposals from Z. Morley Mao: "(1) Would it be possible to put a host behind a few beacon prefixes, so that application layer traffic measurements can be conducted to study how data plane is affected by routing changes? If bandwidth is a concern, one can rate-limit the incoming pipe of those hosts." Technically, it wouldn't be too difficult to add a dummy interface with appropriate IP addresses on each RRC. However, the current agreement with peers and RRC hosts is that there will never be any (non-BGP) traffic to the RRCs. "(2) Could you instrument failover scenarios for multihomed beacons, i.e., announce withdrawal to all but one of the upstream provider to study how long it takes to switch over to backup provider?" RIS team will investigate this. 4. cvs server Henk Uijterwaal summarised the current status of the RIPE NCC providing a public CVS server for NCC-developed software. - Other groups within the RIPE NCC also want this - Being set up - Requirements and specs done - Now in the hands of RIPE NCC Ops group. - Waiting for security sign-off - Probably two to three weeks. In the meantime we can exchange tarballs and patches. 5. BGP Decoder Covered in 2 above. 6. Keepalive issues Problems with missing keepalive messages from Zebra had previously been seen only under Linux and it had been thought that FreeBSD was immune to these problems. However, recent tests show that FreeBSD also exhibits the same problems. Removing "unnecessary" routines from Zebra bgpd solves the problem but at the loss of required functionality. Is this problem caused by an overloaded system or a more structural problem in Zebra even on faster or more lightly loaded systems? This needs to be investigated. Can we come up with system requirements for reliable operation for BGP collection for different setup sizes? (e.g. XXX Mhz processor, YYY Mbytes RAM, etc. for NNN full BGP feeds) 7. Future merge of Zebra/Quagga work Getting patches incorporated into quagga seems much easier than was the case with Zebra. Document results of tests and submit to quagga-dev. Need to dump outgoing updates. Currently bgpd only dumps received updates and we miss outgoing error responses, etc.

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