We are a group of researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden).
Starting from May 9 until May 31, we plan to conduct a research study involving AS-PATH poisoning to measure how reliable route collectors are to report BGP poisoned routes.
We will use the PEERING Testbed [1] to announce the following two prefixes:
- 184.164.236.0/24
- 184.164.237.0/24
for our AS-path poisoning experiments.
The above experimental prefixes do not host any production services, hence user traffic will *not* be affected.
Furthermore, we will always start the AS-PATH with the correct ASN as the origin.
Lastly, to keep the AS-PATH short, we will announce no more than four Poisoned ASNs per announcement. The frequency of the announcements will not exceed four per hour.
seems quite harmless. though i am sure folk who do not really understand AS_PATH will get their nickers in a twist. randy