A look at router geolocation in public and commercial databases

Gharaibeh, Manaf; Shah, Anant; Huffaker, Bradley; Zhang, Han; Ensafi, Roya; Papadopoulos, Christos

doi:10.1145/3131365.3131380

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“…From a geographic perspective, we did not attempt to measure the differences in our re-routing feasibility experiments from Section V geographically. Recent work has found geolocation of routers and AS paths from public and commercial databases to be unreliable [13]; therefore, we focus on the topological differences in poisoning feasibility. Finally, the instability of RIPE Atlas as our distributed traceroute source can be limiting.…”

Section: B Experimental Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Withdrawing the BGP Re-Routing Curtain: Understanding the Security Impact of BGP Poisoning through Real-World Measurements

Smith

Birkeland

McDaniel

et al. 2020

Proceedings 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

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Section: B Experimental Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Withdrawing the BGP Re-Routing Curtain: Understanding the Security Impact of BGP Poisoning through Real-World Measurements

Smith

Birkeland

McDaniel

et al. 2020

Proceedings 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

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“…Laki et al 2011propose a statistical model that associates network latencies to geographical distance range and use maximum likelihood to estimate most possible location. Gharaibeh et al (2017) test accuracy of router geolocation in commercial database with ground truth dataset based on DNS and latency measurements. The authors state that the databases are not accurate in geolocating routers at neither country-nor city-level, even if they agree significantly among each other.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Public and commercial geolocation services provide real-time results, so they are most commonly used. However, geolocation accuracies of these services are not acceptable (Gharaibeh et al 2017). To achieve higher accuracy and lower response delay, geolocation results based on measurements and data mining are used as caches.…”

Section: Security Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards IP geolocation with intermediate routers based on topology discovery

Wang

et al. 2019

Cybersecur

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IP geolocation determines geographical location by the IP address of Internet hosts. IP geolocation is widely used by target advertising, online fraud detection, cyber-attacks attribution and so on. It has gained much more attentions in these years since more and more physical devices are connected to cyberspace. Most geolocation methods cannot resolve the geolocation accuracy for those devices with few landmarks around. In this paper, we propose a novel geolocation approach that is based on common routers as secondary landmarks (Common Routers-based Geolocation, CRG). We search plenty of common routers by topology discovery among web server landmarks. We use statistical learning to study localized (delay, hop)-distance correlation and locate these common routers. We locate the accurate positions of common routers and convert them as secondary landmarks to help improve the feasibility of our geolocation system in areas that landmarks are sparsely distributed. We manage to improve the geolocation accuracy and decrease the maximum geolocation error compared to one of the state-of-the-art geolocation methods. At the end of this paper, we discuss the reason of the efficiency of our method and our future research.

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“…To build a topology graph based on administrative divisions, get the location of a router interface address is an indispensable step. There are many commercial databases can be used to accomplish this work, what we use is the GeoLite [MaxMind (2018)], according to the statement of MaxMind, they got 99.8% accuracy on the country level [GeoLite Accuracy (2018)], and in the research of Gharaibeh et al [Gharaibeh, Shah, Huffaker et al (2017)], the accuracy of the country level of GeoLite is over 80%, and the main incorrect occurs in some countries with small number of IP addresses appeared in our topologies (less than 1%), so we think GeoLite is acceptable.…”

Section: Ip Geolocation Databasementioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing the Structure and Connectivity of Continent-Level Internet Topology

Li¹,

Xi²,

Cai³

et al. 2019

Computers, Materials &Amp; Continua

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The research and analysis of Internet topology is hot in the field of network measurement, which have important applications in network security, traffic scheduling and many other fields. Most of the existing works are focused on the AS-level and routerlevel topology, but few works are about the IP-level topology. In fact, obtaining the topology of each continent and knowing how the topologies of the continents are connected to each other can help us understanding the Internet around the world more thoroughly. In this paper, we obtained data sets from RIPE, constructed and analyzed network topologies of all the continents. By analyzing the topological connections between continents, we found out that most of the junctions of inter-continent traces are located in a few countries.

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A look at router geolocation in public and commercial databases

Cited by 98 publications

References 11 publications

Withdrawing the BGP Re-Routing Curtain: Understanding the Security Impact of BGP Poisoning through Real-World Measurements

Withdrawing the BGP Re-Routing Curtain: Understanding the Security Impact of BGP Poisoning through Real-World Measurements

Towards IP geolocation with intermediate routers based on topology discovery

Analyzing the Structure and Connectivity of Continent-Level Internet Topology

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