[149026] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ANNOUNCE: bgptables.merit.edu - understanding visibility of your
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Manish Karir)
Fri Jan 27 12:00:04 2012
From: Manish Karir <mkarir@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0+aXZdivfsunKP8+b+ueURhrpu_x7RHmTTLy6dLSEeBWqRow@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:59:17 -0500
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
All,
Just a quick update on various feedback we have received from folks on =
the bgpTables Project (http://bgptables.merit.edu)
1: You can now simply enter an AS number in the search/query box without =
the need to prepend the letters "as" before the number
2: You can now lookup an IP address and the result will be the best =
matching prefix e.g. a query for "8.8.8.8" will now work.
3: We have made a few css fixes for opera
4: On the issue of history: We have a parallel effort that tracks =
historical BGP origin information over time which we will work on =
merging
into the bgptable.merit.edu web site.
5: On the issue of graphics to show AS adjacency relationships. Yes we =
do plan on doing some nicer graphics but the hard part is always
in making the layout presentation consistent but we do have some =
good ideas on how to do this.
6: Additional information: RPKI status, RTT measurements, etc. We are =
hoping to work with other folks in integrating their datasets
into our website as suitable. Anything that is organized by =
prefix/AS can be pulled into our existing system.
Thanks for all the feedback! Hopefully we can continue to evolve this =
over time.
-manish
On Jan 14, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> Hello Manish
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> Nice work on bgptables.merit.edu
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> Couple of things:
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> =95 It doesn't recognizes individual IP directly but needs =
complete block in CIDR to get info about it like e.g search for 8.8.8.8 =
gives nothing but 8.8.8.0/24 gives information about Google. It would be =
worth it to have it looking at block to which an IP belongs to.
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> =95 You might consider adding graphs on AS connections - those =
are best for easy & quick reading. Something like for Google (AS15169) - =
http://bgp.he.net/AS15169#_graph4
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> Nice work, keep it going!
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> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Manish Karir <mkarir@merit.edu> =
wrote:
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> All,
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> We would like to announce the availability of the bgpTables Project at =
Merit at: http://bgptables.merit.edu
> bgpTables allows users to easily navigate global routing table data =
collected via routviews.org. bgptables
> essentially processes the data collected at routeviews and makes is =
available in a somewhat easier
> to use interface. The goal of bgpTables is to represent global prefix =
and AS visibility information from the
> vantage point of the various bgp table views as seen at routeviews.
> The data is currently updated nightly (EST) but we hope to improve =
this over time.
> Please see the FAQ (http://bgptables.merit.edu/faq.php) for some =
simple examples of how you can use bgpTables.
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> Some examples:
> - You can query for a specific ASN by entering the text 'as' followed =
by the AS number into the search box. For example to query for =
information about AS 237 you would enter 'as237' [without quotation =
marks] into the search box and then click 'search'. You can then use the =
view navigator map to switch to different routing table views for this =
ASN
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> - You can query for a specific prefix by directly entering the prefix =
into the search box. For example to query for information about prefix =
12.0.0.0/8 you would simply enter '12.0.0.0/8' [without quotation marks] =
into the search box and then click 'search'. You can then use the view =
navigator map to switch to different routing table views for the prefix.
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> - You can find a particular prefix that you might be interested in by =
running a 'contained within' query via the search box. For example to =
quickly browse a list of prefixes contained within 1.0.0.0/8 to find the =
particular prefix you might be interested in, you can enter the text =
'cw1.0.0.0/8' [without quotation marks] into the search box and click =
'search'. You can then browse the resulting table to select the =
particular prefix you might be interested in.
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> - You can simply enter the text 'as' followed by the company name into =
the search box then click search to view a list of possible matches for =
that text. For example, to view all matching google ASNs you can simply =
enter 'asgoogle' into the search box and click search. A list of =
possible matching ASNs that reference Google by name will be returned =
from which you an then select the particular ASN that is of interest to =
you.
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> Comments, corrections, and suggestions are very welcome. Please send =
them to mkarir@merit.edu. Hopefully folks will find this useful.
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> Thanks.
> -The Merit Network Research and Development Team
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> Anurag Bhatia
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> anuragbhatia.com
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> or simply - http://[2001:470:26:78f::5] if you are on IPv6 connected =
network!
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> Twitter: @anurag_bhatia
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