@inproceedings{333915c98ec0443c999828ec718dfaf8,
title = "The record route option is an option!",
abstract = "The IPv4 Record Route (RR) Option instructs routers to record their IP addresses in a packet. RR is subject to a nine hop limit and, traditionally, inconsistent support from routers. Recent changes in interdomain connectivity-the so-called {"}flattening Internet{"}- and new best practices for how routers should handle RR packets suggest that now is a good time to reassess the potential of the RR Option. We quantify the current utility of RR by issuing RR measurements from PlanetLab and M-Lab to every advertised BGP prefix. We find that 75% of addresses that respond to ping without RR also respond to ping with RR, and 66% of these RR-responsive addresses are within the nine hop limit of at least one vantage point. These numbers suggest the RR Option is a useful measurement primitive on today's Internet.",
keywords = "IP options, Record Route, Routing, Topology, Traceroute",
author = "Goodchild, {Brian J.} and Chiu, {Yi Ching} and Ob Hansen and Haonan Lu and Matt Calder and Matthew Luckie and Wyatt Lloyd and David Choffnes and Ethan Katz-Bassett",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank our shepherd, Brian Trammell, for his feedback and guidance in the revision process, as well as the anonymous reviewers. We thank Rajiv Gandhi, whose tireless dedication to his students made this work possible. The authors are supported through NSF awards CCF-1433220, CCF-1218620, CNS-1405871, and CNS-1406042. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 2017 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2017 ; Conference date: 01-11-2017 Through 03-11-2017",
year = "2017",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1145/3131365.3131392",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "311--317",
booktitle = "IMC 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Internet Measurement Conference",
}