[mat-wg] [Fwd: Community suggestion for ATLAS spoof test]

  From: Antoin Verschuren <antoin.verschuren at sidn.nl>

  If all we want to know is an oversight of the state of spoofing now,
  and in a year's time, can't we just ask the Atlas users (AKA the
  mailinglist) that want to know to do a 1 time spoofing test on
  http://spoofer.csail.mit.edu/summary.php from their atlas probe network?
  
  IMHO that is less work than to ask Atlas users for permission.

Antoin,

Thanks for suggesting that, we agree that Atlas nodes are a
terrific way to increase the scope of visibility of spoofing.

I should note that we have spent the last few months updating 
the 7-year old spoofer code and web site (btw, it's now at
http://spoofer.cmand.org/ , jointly managed by Rob Beverly at 
nps.edu and CAIDA) including adding tests for IPv6 spoofing 
ability, making graphs on the summary page clearer, 
classifying spoofing-capable networks into types, and
allowing probing to multiple (CAIDA Ark) destintations
(which also increases visibility into spoofing, but
not nearly as much as 1000+ Atlas nodes would..)

we plan to deploy and announce an updated version by 1 June. 
so if you're going to encourage Atlas nodes to try our spoofer 
test, it would be ideal to have them do it shortly after 1 June.
we will send an announcement to this list when we release
the new version.

after june we will still be working on better techniques to 
filter tests for representativeness, and other methodology
improvements.  please do send us requests for other changes/additions
you would like to see.  ( http://spoofer.cmand.org/contact.php )
 
thanks,
k (and Rob Beverly and Ryan Koga, current team)