Pushing Alias Resolution to the Limit
Networking and Internet Architecture
2023-09-28 v1
Abstract
In this paper, we show that utilizing multiple protocols offers a unique opportunity to improve IP alias resolution and dual-stack inference substantially. Our key observation is that prevalent protocols, e.g., SSH and BGP, reply to unsolicited requests with a set of values that can be combined to form a unique device identifier. More importantly, this is possible by just completing the TCP hand-shake. Our empirical study shows that utilizing readily available scans and our active measurements can double the discovered IPv4 alias sets and more than 30x the dual-stack sets compared to the state-of-the-art techniques. We provide insights into our method's accuracy and performance compared to popular techniques.
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@article{arxiv.2309.15622,
title = {Pushing Alias Resolution to the Limit},
author = {Taha Albakour and Oliver Gasser and Georgios Smaragdakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.15622},
year = {2023}
}