FYI, in case of you're not in these mailing lists. Cheers, Jerome
P.S. Don't shoot the messanger ;-) > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Lorenzo Colitti > Envoy� : mercredi, 15. juin 2005 11:28 > � : [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc : Henk Uijterwaal; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : Announcing long AS-sets tomorrow > > Hi, > > as part of our AS-set stuffing experiments (announced, > including links to in-depth information, in [1]), we will be > announcing unusually large AS-sets tomorrow, Thursday 16 June. > > The prefixes involved will be 84.205.73.0/24 and > 84.205.89.0/24, both orignating in AS12654. The AS-sets will > consist of AS12654 repeated n times, thus the paths will look > like 12654 {12654, 12654, ..., 12654}. > No other AS numbers will be used. The values of n we will use > are 25, 50, 75 and 100. > > The announcements are designed to discover how far large > AS-sets are propagated, and thus how effective our techniques > can be, in today's Internet with today's IPv4 operational > practices. This is *not* a test to see if routers will fall > over: we have successfully tested longer AS-sets in the lab > on both Cisco and Juniper, and longer AS-paths and AS-sets > have been observed in the wild [2,3]. See [1] for more > information on the safety of these announcements. > > The proposed schedule is as follows: > > 84.205.73.0/24 84.205.89.0/24 > 14:00 UTC: 25-element AS-set 50-element AS-set > 14:30 UTC: withdrawal withdrawal > > 16:00 UTC: 75-element AS-set 100-element AS-set > 16:30 UTC: withdrawal withdrawal > > If anyone should see a problem during the announcements, > please contact me and I will take immediate action. > > > Regards, > Lorenzo > > > [1] http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-06/msg00210.html > [2] http://www.ripe.net/projects/ris/Talks/0101_RIPE38_AA/sld003.html > [3] > http://www.ripe.net/maillists/ncc-archives/ris-users/2002/msg0 0044.html > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.ripe.net www.dia.uniroma3.it/~compunet > RIPE NCC Roma Tre Computer Networks research group > _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
