How polluted is 1/8?

Thu Feb 4 20:18:37 UTC 2010

On 2/4/10 2:14 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> I know someone who'd happily sink both the /24's in question.. if apnic's
> interested.
>    
Ditto.

> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Jared Mauch<jared at puck.nether.net>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Kevin Loch wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Hello,
>>>> After 1/8 was allocated to APNIC last week, the RIPE NCC did some
>>>>          
>> measurements to find out how "polluted" this block really is.
>>      
>>>> See some surprising results on RIPE Labs:
>>>>          
>> http://labs.ripe.net/content/pollution-18
>>      
>>>> Please also note the call for feedback at the bottom of the article.
>>>>          
>>> The most surprising thing in that report was that someone has an AMS-IX
>>> port at just 10 megs.  It would be nice to see an actual measurement of
>>> the traffic and daily/weekly changes. A breakdown of the flow data by
>>> source ASN and source prefix (for the top 50-100 sources) would also be
>>> interesting.
>>>        
>> There was a call on the apnic list for someone to sink some of the traffic.
>>
>> I'd like to see someone capture the data and post pcaps/netflow analysis,
>> and possibly just run a http server on that /24 so people can test if their
>> network is broken.
>>
>> I've taken a peek at the traffic, and I don't think it's 100's of megs, but
>> without a global view who knows.
>>
>> - Jared
>>
>>