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--- who_is_using_this_ip_address [2014/02/08 22:03] – samer
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 ===== -- Using BGP Information =====
-An alternative method for identifying the AS that announces a specific IP prefix consists in studying the BGP routing information. Typically, each BGP speaking router stores in a BGP table the routing announcements received for each prefix together with some protocol attributes such as the AS-PATH. This attribute contains the list of ASes traversed by the BGP announcement, with the first AS being the origin AS for the IP prefix! Therefore, the problem boils down to parsing the BGP routing information, matching the IP address or prefix, and then extracting the origin AS from the AS-PATH attribute. Such process is obviously optimal when the router has a global view of the Internet: this is the case for routers participating in the Default Free Zone (DFZ) where the BGP tables contain *all the prefixes* announced in the Internet. As of 2014, these routers have around 500 000 active BGP entries according to the latest statistics.
+An alternative method for identifying the AS that announces a specific IP prefix consists in studying the BGP routing information. Typically, each BGP speaking router stores in a BGP table the routing announcements received for each prefix together with some protocol attributes such as the AS-PATH. This attribute contains the list of ASes traversed by the BGP announcement, with the first AS being the origin AS for the IP prefix! Therefore, the problem boils down to parsing the BGP routing information, matching the IP address or prefix, and then extracting the origin AS from the AS-PATH attribute. Such process is obviously optimal when the router has a global view of the Internet: this is the case for routers participating in the Default Free Zone (DFZ) where the BGP tables contain //all the prefixes// announced in the Internet. As of 2014, these routers have around 500 000 active BGP entries according to the latest statistics.
 [{{ :bgp-table.png?direct&600 | Figure 1. Active BGP entries}}]