RIPE Labs

In recent weeks, I’ve attended two events, SEE 6, hosted by the RIPE NCC in Budva, Montenegro, and the 10th European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) in Tallinn, Estonia. At both events, I had the opportunity to speak about the issue of sustainable access to the Internet.… Read more

Ilker Nadi Bozkurt and his colleagues found that the Internet is much slower than it could be. They wonder where this slowdown comes from and what can be done about it.… Read more

Wi-Fi monitoring solutions can be expensive and inflexible. At UNINETT we're developing a system to tackle this problem.… Read more

In this article we present a new way to access the dataset on the RIPE Atlas platform. Instead of fetching individual results from measurements using the available APIs, now you can download files containing public measurements for a given day. You can also specify the type of measurement and the IP version.… Read more

Open DNS resolvers that answer queries coming from anyone have been the main component of a large number of DDoS attacks in recent years.… Read more

What does external relations mean to the RIPE NCC, and what exactly have we been up to in this area lately?… Read more

An update on some of the action points that came out of diversity discussions at RIPE 74 - first step, collecting metrics. … Read more

Please read this guest post by Enric Pujol, a network data analyst. Enric is looking at potential barriers that prevent ISPs to carry more traffic over IPv6.… Read more

In this article I describe how I am using the atlas_exporter to export metrics based on RIPE Atlas results to Prometheus.… Read more

Last Thursday, 1 June, RIPEstat suffered from the longest service outage in years. Although the root cause was, in hindsight, trivial, it took more than three hours to fully recover. As unfortunate as this outage was, the situation yielded vital take-aways that will hopefully help prevent future outages.… Read more