Cristel Pelsser

Experiments

Live network-measurement experiments run by our group. These are controlled, research-purpose announcements — this page documents what is running and why.

BGP Experiment

Active

Visibility of IXP-based hijacks in public route collectors

Objective

We test the feasibility of performing hijacks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) without those hijacks appearing in public route collectors. The goal is to measure visibility blind spots in today's BGP monitoring infrastructure: understanding where route collectors fail to observe a hijack is a prerequisite for improving routing-security detection and defenses.

How it works

  1. Origin ASes AS9434 · AS215011
  2. Upstream AS20473 · Vultr
  3. IXP Hijack announced
  4. Route collectors Visible?

Infrastructure

Origin AS
AS9434
Lent to us by IIJ
View on bgp.tools
Origin AS
AS215011
nxthdr
View on bgp.tools
Upstream provider
AS20473
Vultr
View on bgp.tools

Note for network operators

This is a controlled research experiment conducted for measurement purposes only. For any question, please get in touch.