Looking glasses provide a view of routing tables that you wouldn't otherwise be able to access. This talk provides an overview of many publicly available looking-glasses. We then provide more detail about the Packet Clearing House looking-glass project, which collects peering routes from several exchange points around the world.

About the Presenter
Steve Gibbard is the Network Architect at Packet Clearing House. He runs a global research network and an anycast DNS network, hosts the top level domains for several countries as well as a root DNS server, and studies the interconnection of Internet networks around the world. In addition, he does network architecture and peering work as a consultant for several ISPs in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Steve is a former Senior Network Engineer at Cable & Wireless, and has held network engineering positions at Digital Island and World Wide Net.