@inproceedings{00a083dd5a6941de8283c616fe85b1be,
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 = "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",
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",
address = "United States",
}