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Mikhail Anisimov: Developing the DNS Under Pressure

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Anastasiya Pak

Based in Amsterdam

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Being at the core of the Internet places the DNS under a lot of pressure. New forms of DNS abuse emerge each year, disputes over domain names persist, and all the while, the Internet just keeps getting bigger. Mikhail Anisimov from ICANN talks about the coordinated effort involved in meeting these …

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Olympeaks: The Impact of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Italy's Internet Traffic

Olympeaks: The Impact of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Italy's Internet Traffic

Flavio Luciani

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The Olympeaks observatory, a monitoring initiative from NAMEX, captured the Internet traffic profile for Italian coverage of the Olympics. Here's their view of some of the main peaks.

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A Dive Into TLD Performance

A Dive Into TLD Performance

Arnold Dechamps

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DNS is a complex set of protocols with a long history. Some TLD's go as far back as 1985 - but not all of them are built equal. And not all of them have the same performance depending on where the end user is situated in the world. So just how different are they?

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How We Distribute RIPE Atlas Probes

How We Distribute RIPE Atlas Probes

Ulka Athale

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With a limited supply of hardware probes and thousands of networks yet to be covered, how do we prioritise the applications to host probes? In this article, we explain our hardware probe distribution strategy to improve RIPE Atlas’s global coverage.

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Roughtime: Securing Time for IoT Devices

Roughtime: Securing Time for IoT Devices

Robert Allen

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Roughtime is a draft protocol aimed at providing a secure way for IoT devices to obtain time. In this Q&A from Netnod, Marcus Dansarie, Technical Consultant at Netnod and co-author of the IETF draft on Roughtime, answers questions on why secure time is essential, the challenges for IoT devices, and…

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Are Differences in RIR RPKI Implementations Hindering RPKI Adoption?

Are Differences in RIR RPKI Implementations Hindering RPKI Adoption?

Sofía Silva Berenguer

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The NRO RPKI Program Team is calling on network operators to share what stage of the RPKI adoption journey they are at and what barriers they might have encountered along the way.

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Announcing the Green Tech Hackathon

Announcing the Green Tech Hackathon

Vesna Manojlovic

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Join the next RIPE NCC hackathon focused on Green Tech this December! This time, our goals are to develop tools, policies and protocols to reduce the environmental impact of Internet infrastructure. Apply now to join and help us organise this Sustain-a-thon!

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IXP-from-Scratch: Network and Security Design

IXP-from-Scratch: Network and Security Design

Thomas Liske

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In the second of our “IXP from Scratch” series, we introduce network and security design decisions as well as implementations we made at DD-IX, an Internet Exchange in Dresden, Germany. In principle, an IX consists of a single broadcast domain, but in practice it has to operate several services sec…

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