olaf APNIC RIS

RIPE NCC Routing Information ServiceStatus and plans: 

RIPE NCC Routing Information Service Status and plans Arife Coltekin, Luigi Corsello, Daniel Karrenberg, Henk Uijterwaal, Matthew Williams Presented by Olaf Kolkman RIPE NCC New Projects Group RIPE41, Amsterdam, January 2002

Outline: 

Outline Introduction Remote Route Collectors Making the RIS more useful for daily operations Data analysis Conclusions

What is the RIS?: 

What is the RIS? AS1’s NOC gets a user complaint: “Last night, I could not reach www.x.com.” AS1’s NOC looks at the current routing tables “Well, it works now” AS2 AS3 AS4 www.x.com Router AS5 User Router AS1

Motivation: 

Motivation Problem with your (AS-level) routing Current tools: Log in to your router Use a looking glass on other routers All kinds of problems: How to find right looking glass? What if the looking glass cannot be reached either? Accessing multiple LG’s takes a lot of time No history mechanism Solution: Routing Information Service (RIS)

The RIS : 

The RIS Collects default-free time-stamped BGP announcements between AS’s and store them in a data base At several points on the Internet Set up interactive queries to database Provide raw data Provide analysis Available to the Community

Outline: 

Outline Introduction Remote Route Collectors Making the RIS more useful for daily operations Data analysis Conclusions

Remote Route Collectors: 

Remote Route Collectors Collect BGP updates from all interested parties at an IX 4 new collection points since last year Next: MAE-west US east coast

#Peering Sessions: 

#Peering Sessions 0: RIPE-NCC 1: LINX 2: SFINX 3: AMS-IX 4: CIXP: Geneva 5: VIX: Vienna 6: NSPIXP2: Tokyo 7: Netnod-IX (Stockholm) # Sessions 15 56 13 42 10 40 5 ? 181

Your data in the RIS?: 

Your data in the RIS? Yes, please! Send peering information to: rispeering@ripe.net http://abcoude.ripe.net/ris/peerreg.cgi The RIS will not announce any routes, nor will it send any traffic to your site

Administrative stuff: 

Administrative stuff RIS users lists: ris-users@ripe.net Majordomo Operational information Announcements about changes in the RIS Downtime Problems with the data Future: Discussion of problems when analyzing the data

Outline: 

Outline Introduction Remote Route Collectors Making the RIS more useful for daily operations Data analysis Conclusions

Making the RIS more useful for daily operations: 

Making the RIS more useful for daily operations FAQ with answers Manual Typical examples/cases studies Annotated screen dumps Will add more cases Let us know if this is useful

Manual example: 

Manual example

Looking Glass on the boxes: 

Looking Glass on the boxes There is a time-gap between data-collection and data-insertion 1 hour To cover this, we added a Looking Glass on the RRC Standard Looking Glass code Available on all rrc’s Start from RIS homepage

Top10 of most active prefixes: 

Top10 of most active prefixes Generates lists of the most active prefixes Announcements or withdrawals Top10, 25 or 50 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours Large number of updates may indicate a problem CGI-script to find them Available on demand We will run it regular to produce a monthly top10 http://abcoude.ripe.net/ris/topten.cgi

Most active prefixes: 

Most active prefixes Most active prefixes

Most active prefixes: 

Most active prefixes

Most active prefixes: 

Most active prefixes Next steps: Top10 by origin AS Look for Withdrawal-Announcement sequences “Flaps” Produce statistics

Outline: 

Outline Introduction Remote Route Collectors Making the RIS more useful for daily operations Data analysis Conclusions

RISreport: 

RISreport First version released last summer Wanted to add new plots Scalability problems Decided to re-implement the SQL2RRD tool November-January Switch over in the next weeks Long list of variables that can be added

RISreportComparison old/new: 

RISreport Comparison old/new Old New

Total number of prefixes seen: 

Total number of prefixes seen RRC0/NCC, RRC6/NSPIXP2, RRC1/LINX, RRC3/AMS-IX

Outline: 

Outline Introduction Remote Route Collectors Making the RIS more useful for daily operations Data analysis Conclusions

Conclusions: 

Conclusions FAQ and a manual, to make the RIS more useful for daily operations New queries More data Next steps: Extend RISreport Flaps Your feedback

Questions, Discussion: 

Questions, Discussion URL: http://www.ripe.net/ris Mail: ris@ripe.net (General info) ris-users@ripe.net (For people using the data) rispeering@ripe.net (To set up peerings)