LACeS: An Open, Fast, Responsible, and Efficient Longitudinal Anycast Census System
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| author | Hendriks, Remi Luckie, Matthew Jonker, Mattijs Sommese, Raffaele van Rijswijk-Deij, Roland |
| author_facet | Hendriks, Remi Luckie, Matthew Jonker, Mattijs Sommese, Raffaele van Rijswijk-Deij, Roland |
| contents | IP anycast replicates an address at multiple locations to reduce latency and enhance resilience. Due to anycast's crucial role in the modern Internet, earlier research introduced tools to perform anycast censuses. The first, iGreedy, uses latency measurements from geographically dispersed locations to map anycast deployments. The second, MAnycast2, uses anycast to perform a census of other anycast networks. MAnycast2's advantage is speed and coverage but suffers from problems with accuracy, while iGreedy is highly accurate but slower using author-defined probing rates and costlier. In this paper we address the shortcomings of both systems and present LACeS (Longitudinal Anycast Census System). Taking MAnycast2 as a basis, we completely redesign its measurement pipeline, and add support for distributed probing, additional protocols (DNS over UDP, TCP SYN/ACK, and IPv6) and latency measurements similar to iGreedy. We validate LACeS on an anycast testbed with 32 globally distributed nodes, compare against an external anycast production deployment, extensive latency measurements with RIPE Atlas and cross-check over 60% of detected anycast using operator ground truth that shows LACeS achieves high accuracy. Finally, we provide a longitudinal analysis of anycast, covering 17+ months, showing LACeS achieves high precision. We make continual daily LACeS censuses available to the community and release the source code of the tool under a permissive open source license. |
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| spellingShingle | LACeS: An Open, Fast, Responsible, and Efficient Longitudinal Anycast Census System Hendriks, Remi Luckie, Matthew Jonker, Mattijs Sommese, Raffaele van Rijswijk-Deij, Roland Networking and Internet Architecture IP anycast replicates an address at multiple locations to reduce latency and enhance resilience. Due to anycast's crucial role in the modern Internet, earlier research introduced tools to perform anycast censuses. The first, iGreedy, uses latency measurements from geographically dispersed locations to map anycast deployments. The second, MAnycast2, uses anycast to perform a census of other anycast networks. MAnycast2's advantage is speed and coverage but suffers from problems with accuracy, while iGreedy is highly accurate but slower using author-defined probing rates and costlier. In this paper we address the shortcomings of both systems and present LACeS (Longitudinal Anycast Census System). Taking MAnycast2 as a basis, we completely redesign its measurement pipeline, and add support for distributed probing, additional protocols (DNS over UDP, TCP SYN/ACK, and IPv6) and latency measurements similar to iGreedy. We validate LACeS on an anycast testbed with 32 globally distributed nodes, compare against an external anycast production deployment, extensive latency measurements with RIPE Atlas and cross-check over 60% of detected anycast using operator ground truth that shows LACeS achieves high accuracy. Finally, we provide a longitudinal analysis of anycast, covering 17+ months, showing LACeS achieves high precision. We make continual daily LACeS censuses available to the community and release the source code of the tool under a permissive open source license. |
| title | LACeS: An Open, Fast, Responsible, and Efficient Longitudinal Anycast Census System |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20554 |