Researchers Chart Internet's 'Black Holes'

Jeroen Massar jeroen at unfix.org
Thu Jun 7 17:05:37 UTC 2007


Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> 
> http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/hubble
> 
> "Despite its robust appearance, more than 10 percent of the internet
> flickers out like a candle every day, according to researchers who
> unveiled on Wednesday an experimental tool that probes the network's
> dark places.
[..]

I couldn't make it up from the slides or the terse text, but I am
wondering how much information you can really deduce from BGP, yes it
says "they don't have that prefix", but for the rest, even if an ISP has
a  prefix it doesn't mean that any packet can flow from A to B. Doing
traceroutes from a remote site doesn't help as that is just C to A or B.

Better "Internet Hubble Telescopes" are therefor:
RIPE TTM: http://www.ripe.net/test-traffic/
RIPE RIS: http://www.ripe.net/ris/

TTM is deployed globally around the world and does traceroutes/pings/bgp
monitoring and a lot more to see where problems are, you can get a peek
at what it can show you at: http://www.switch.ch/network/ttm/ courtesy
of SWITCH in Switzerland.

If you want an "IPv6 Hubble" you can check up GRH which has provided
that kind of information for quite some time already.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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