Announcing long AS-sets tomorrow

Hey guys,

A longer heads-up would have been nice, something like a week.  This 24 hour
notice is unfortunate.

Thanks,
Christian


On 6/15/05 5:27 AM, "Lorenzo Colitti" <lorenzo at ripe.net> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> as part of our AS-set stuffing experiments (announced, including links
> to in-depth information, in [1]), we will be announcing unusually large
> AS-sets tomorrow, Thursday 16 June.
> 
> The prefixes involved will be 84.205.73.0/24 and 84.205.89.0/24, both
> orignating in AS12654. The AS-sets will consist of AS12654 repeated n
> times, thus the paths will look like 12654 {12654, 12654, ..., 12654}.
> No other AS numbers will be used. The values of n we will use are 25,
> 50, 75 and 100.
> 
> The announcements are designed to discover how far large AS-sets are
> propagated, and thus how effective our techniques can be, in today's
> Internet with today's IPv4 operational practices. This is *not* a test
> to see if routers will fall over: we have successfully tested longer
> AS-sets in the lab on both Cisco and Juniper, and longer AS-paths and
> AS-sets have been observed in the wild [2,3]. See [1] for more
> information on the safety of these announcements.
> 
> The proposed schedule is as follows:
> 
>                84.205.73.0/24      84.205.89.0/24
> 14:00 UTC:   25-element AS-set   50-element AS-set
> 14:30 UTC:      withdrawal          withdrawal
> 
> 16:00 UTC:   75-element AS-set  100-element AS-set
> 16:30 UTC:      withdrawal          withdrawal
> 
> If anyone should see a problem during the announcements, please contact
> me and I will take immediate action.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Lorenzo
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-06/msg00210.html
> [2] http://www.ripe.net/projects/ris/Talks/0101_RIPE38_AA/sld003.html
> [3] http://www.ripe.net/maillists/ncc-archives/ris-users/2002/msg00044.html


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