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

Wed Jan 18 04:22:19 UTC 2012

Well - for starters, if you get a prefix that was announced by ASN
xxxx from [timestamp] to [timestamp], went to ASN yyyy  on [timestamp]
etc.

Quite useful if you want to tie this into route leak, prefix hijack,
malicious ASN etc tracking tools.

--srs

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Manish Karir <mkarir at merit.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Arturo,
>
> We could easily archive older copies of the database when we update the data, but I think our issue right now
> is that we dont fully understand how to add the notion of time to the user interface and we dont understand how
> folks might want to use it.  Do you have a simple use case description of an example which might help us
> figure out how the notion of time can help answer a question.?  What would be an example of a query
> that uses time?
>
> Thanks.
> -manish
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Arturo Servin wrote:
>
>> Manish,
>>
>>       Nice tool.
>>
>>       Is it possible to see the "history" of a prefix?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> .as
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13 Jan 2012, at 18:19, Manish Karir 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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