non-rate limited, automatable Looking Glasses?

Lars Prehn lprehn at mpi-inf.mpg.de
Sun Jul 19 09:49:00 UTC 2020


Hi Baldur,

Yes, you are right. While, in general, Looking Glasses would be optimal, 
those LGs that I know have rules in place that prohibit automated 
requests and also limit the number of queries one can enter manually.

Best regards,

Lars

On 19.07.20 11:05, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> Just trying to clarify the question. If you observe a BGP route to 
> 1.2.3.0/24 <http://1.2.3.0/24> with AS path 1 2 3, you want to do a 
> traceroute to confirm that the packets indeed travel through ASNs 1, 2 
> and 3?
>
> I would think that traceroute will have to be run directly on the same 
> router that provides the BGP feed.
>
> Regards
>
> Baldur
>
>
> lør. 18. jul. 2020 23.34 skrev Lars Prehn <lprehn at mpi-inf.mpg.de 
> <mailto:lprehn at mpi-inf.mpg.de>>:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     In the next couple of months, I want to compare data plane and
>     control
>     plane measurements on a larger scale. In particular, I'm looking for
>     (publicly accessible) devices that receive BGP feeds and can
>     perform a
>     bunch of automated (paris) traceroutes. I currently do not have an
>     exact
>     probing rate or target set in mind; however, I'm sure that manually
>     entering IP addresses as targets for usual Looking glasses won't
>     cut it.
>     Does anyone know less-restricted (maybe even automatable?) Looking
>     Glasses (or similar devices) or is willing to provide access to one?
>
>     BTW: I though about picking Atlas probes from ASes that feed BGP
>     Collector Projects (e.g. RIPE RIS or RouteViews). Unfortunately, the
>     respective probes are often really far apart from the feeding
>     routers;
>     thus, their individual perspectives are likely misaligned :(
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Lars
>
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