Dan Ardelean’s Thesis on “Black Holes”

• Concept

  • Compare the IP address space known to a peer with what is seen by the entire RIS

• Practice

  • Remove more specific routes from Peer’s BGP table dump and from the RIS
  • Make a comparison between RIS and Peer
  • IP address blocks which are not seen by the peer are potential “Black Holes”

• Thesis available for download at URL: http://www.ripe.net/ris/analysis.html

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