
Using RIPE Atlas to Validate International Routing Detours
Anant Shah
Based in Fort Collins, CO, US
I am a PhD Candidate at Colorado State University. My areas of interest are Internet measurements, routing analysis, anomaly detection. I like to research on topics that can be directly applied to operations. When not writing code, I spend time playing amateur guitar. More
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International routing detours are paths that originate in one country, visit another country and return to the original country. Such circuitous routes could occur due to intentional traffic engineering, lack of local peering, BGP misconfigurations, or even attacks. Detecting such events helps n…