2012/1/23 Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
ok, that seems squirrelly still :(
so, take routeviews for example, they peer almost exclusively ebgp-multi-hop, so any 'best path' you see there isn't actually usable by the route-server... all traffic has to take the local transport out of the routeviews system, off to the internet and beyond. So, your blackhole testing isn't actually testing what you want, I think :(
it is not a serious problem, I think. 1). we do not use routeviews-like routeservers for hijacking identification, we only use router. 2). there is a high possibility that, the 'best path' is the path in FIB table. 3). if the 'best path' is not the path in FIB, there is still a high possibility that the 'best path' is the path in the FIB of other routes in the same AS. 4), our criterion is a threshold of a fingerprint, not a extremum. the fingerprint evaluated the possibility. hope I'm not wrong. :)
-chris
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