l. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur. 1 Routing Information Service (RIS) Antony Antony, Thomas Franchetti, Henk Uijterwaal, Daniel Karrenberg RIPE-NCC Apricot 2001

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur. 2 Overview Why a Routing Information Service? What is the Routing Information Service ? How to use the RIS ! How to participate ! Q & A

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur. 3 Why a RIS ? Global routing behavior affects I(S)P service Distant routing problems are difficult to diagnose ‘Routing quality’ of neighbors is difficult to assess Destination based routing provides ‘one-way- only’ control & diagnostics Looking glasses are a crude tool to cover the ‘other direction’

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur. 4 What is RIS? “Looking Glass on Drugs” Multiple route collectors integrate multiple views Database provides access to more than just instantaneous data Database supports various (longer term) analysis products Multiple collectors and database enable complex analysis products

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur. 5 RRC00 Insertion Machine User Interface RIPE NCC Data the RIPE NCC new setup RRC01 Server Machine Tape RRC02 Disks RRCxx

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur. 6 Remote Route Collectors Currently 4: –RIPE NCC, + 15 peers worldwide –LINX, + 40 peering sessions from LINX members –AMS-IX, installed 16/1 –SFINX, in transit Next steps: –Investigate the added value from more RRC’s? –Where to locate the next RRC’s? –2 more in Europe, Americas ? –AP Region !

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur. 7 We need your input! User Interface Raw Database Queries Asinuse –shows peering history of a particular AS –Beta, but quite popular –used by RIPE NCC registration staff Other queries? Yes

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur. 8 Main Parameters –RRC –AS# or IP Address –Time Period Example: APNIC Service Machine in TokyoAPNIC Service Machine in Tokyo –AS# in form not used (we clicked ‘Search Network’) –note query for /32 Address possible returns routes containing Address –output starts with routing table dump, then updates Raw Database Query live

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur. 9 Asinuse Tool Presents ‘Peering History’ of an AS –current main user is RIPE NCC registration staff –after informal announcement other users appeared Example: AS4777AS4777 –takes 1-3 minutes, whole database searched –provides links to regstration data –useful to check out your own AS live

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur Daily Analysis RIS Database SQL2RRD: Universal tool to do large amounts of (similar) queries RRD Database: –Plots on the Web –Last command to generate report RRD SQL2RRD WWW RIS DB Queries

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur Prefixes per Prefix Length

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur Origin ASes announcing only one Prefix

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur Origin ASes per announced Prefixes

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur Raw data There is a lot of interest in the raw data –ISMA2000 –Hermes –… Raw data is now available

l. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur How to Participate Please suggest topologically interesting places willing to house a remote route collector to us at

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur PAM2001-Workshop (commercial) An annual workshop on Passive and Active Measurements –2nd in a series –Amsterdam, April 23-24, Conference program available –+ 20 talks on Passive and Active Measurements –Poster session and equipment demonstration Registration opened See for detailshttp://

. Apricot 2001 Kuala Lumpur Questions, Discussion