ANNOUNCE: bgptables.merit.edu - understanding visibility of your prefix/AS

Sat Jan 14 07:33:12 UTC 2012

Hello Manish

Nice work on bgptables.merit.edu

Couple of things:

   1. It doesn't recognizes individual IP directly but needs complete block
   in CIDR to get info about it like e.g search for 8.8.8.8 gives nothing but
   8.8.8.0/24 gives information about Google. It would be worth it to have
   it looking at block to which an IP belongs to.

   2. You might consider adding graphs on AS connections - those are best
   for easy & quick reading. Something like for Google (AS15169) -
   http://bgp.he.net/AS15169#_graph4

Nice work, keep it going!

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Manish Karir <mkarir at merit.edu> wrote:

>
> All,
>
> We would like to announce the availability of the bgpTables Project at
> Merit at: http://bgptables.merit.edu
> bgpTables allows users to easily navigate global routing table data
> collected via routviews.org.  bgptables
> essentially processes the data collected at routeviews and makes is
> available in a somewhat easier
> to use interface. The goal of bgpTables is to represent global prefix and
> AS visibility information from the
> vantage point of the various bgp table views as seen at routeviews.
> The data is currently updated nightly (EST) but we hope to improve this
> over time.
> Please see the FAQ (http://bgptables.merit.edu/faq.php) for some simple
> examples of how you can use bgpTables.
>
> Some examples:
> - You can query for a specific ASN by entering the text 'as' followed by
> the AS number into the search box. For example to query for information
> about AS 237 you would enter 'as237' [without quotation marks] into the
> search box and then click 'search'. You can then use the view navigator map
> to switch to different routing table views for this ASN
>
> - You can query for a specific prefix by directly entering the prefix into
> the search box. For example to query for information about prefix
> 12.0.0.0/8 you would simply enter '12.0.0.0/8' [without quotation marks]
> into the search box and then click 'search'. You can then use the view
> navigator map to switch to different routing table views for the prefix.
>
> - You can find a particular prefix that you might be interested in by
> running a 'contained within' query via the search box. For example to
> quickly browse a list of prefixes contained within 1.0.0.0/8 to find the
> particular prefix you might be interested in, you can enter the text
> 'cw1.0.0.0/8' [without quotation marks] into the search box and click
> 'search'. You can then browse the resulting table to select the particular
> prefix you might be interested in.
>
> - You can simply enter the text 'as' followed by the company name into the
> search box then click search to view a list of possible matches for that
> text. For example, to view all matching google ASNs you can simply enter
> 'asgoogle' into the search box and click search. A list of possible
> matching ASNs that reference Google by name will be returned from which you
> an then select the particular ASN that is of interest to you.
>
>
> Comments, corrections, and suggestions are very welcome.  Please send them
> to mkarir at merit.edu.  Hopefully folks will find this useful.
>
> Thanks.
> -The Merit Network Research and Development Team
>
>
>

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