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| author | Izhikevich, Katherine Du, Ben Rao, Sumanth Ukani, Alisha Izhikevich, Liz |
| author_facet | Izhikevich, Katherine Du, Ben Rao, Sumanth Ukani, Alisha Izhikevich, Liz |
| contents | Geolocation plays a critical role in understanding the Internet. In this work, we provide an in-depth analysis of operator-misreported geolocation. Using a bandwidth-efficient methodology, we find in May 2024 that only a small percentage (1.5%) of vantage points in the largest community-vantage point collection, RIPE Atlas, do not respond from their operator-reported geolocation. However, misreported geolocations disproportionately affect areas with limited coverage and cause entire countries to be left with no vantage points. Furthermore, the problem is escalating: within the past five years, the number of probes reporting the wrong location has increased ten-fold. To increase the accuracy of future methodologies and studies that rely upon operator-reported geolocation, we open source our methodology and release a continually updated dataset of RIPE Atlas vantage points that misreport geolocation. |
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| spellingShingle | Trust, But Verify, Operator-Reported Geolocation Izhikevich, Katherine Du, Ben Rao, Sumanth Ukani, Alisha Izhikevich, Liz Networking and Internet Architecture Geolocation plays a critical role in understanding the Internet. In this work, we provide an in-depth analysis of operator-misreported geolocation. Using a bandwidth-efficient methodology, we find in May 2024 that only a small percentage (1.5%) of vantage points in the largest community-vantage point collection, RIPE Atlas, do not respond from their operator-reported geolocation. However, misreported geolocations disproportionately affect areas with limited coverage and cause entire countries to be left with no vantage points. Furthermore, the problem is escalating: within the past five years, the number of probes reporting the wrong location has increased ten-fold. To increase the accuracy of future methodologies and studies that rely upon operator-reported geolocation, we open source our methodology and release a continually updated dataset of RIPE Atlas vantage points that misreport geolocation. |
| title | Trust, But Verify, Operator-Reported Geolocation |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19109 |