RIPE Labs

On Sunday, 17 February 2019, 51 representatives from 37 organisations came together in Cloudflare's San Francisco offices for a roundtable discussion. The aim was to discuss operational aspects of RPKI deployment. RPKI technology is nowadays seen as the best way forward to secure the Internet's routing tables. Participants came from all market verticals: large telecom operators, government agencies, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), and cloud providers.… Read more

We are launching a prototype called RIS Live, a feed that offers BGP messages in real time. It collects information from the RIS Route Collectors (RRCs) and uses a WebSocket JSON API to monitor and detect routing events around the world.… Read more

At the recent FOSDEM 2019 meeting, there were three presentations about DNS over HTTPS. In the following post, I will attempt to give a neutral description of what I think we learned, and where we now are on DNS over HTTPS (DoH), with a focus on the European perspective. If you find a noticeable bias, please let me know urgently and I’ll address it. But to be clear, I’m no fan of centralising the DNS on a small number of cloud providers. After the neutral description you will find some strong opinions on the desirability of ‘DNS over Cloud’.… Read more

This article explains our approach when a resource holder has an invalid abuse contact and does not respond to our automated emails.… Read more

Analysing network data to detect anomalies, such as intrusions, is an effective and proven technique for threat detection. However, it is a very intensive task, and continues to become more so with the growing demand for cybersecurity services. Among the craze surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI), there has been an interest in using Deep Learning (DL) within the networking and network security communities to improve efficiency and to reduce the risk of mistakes with detecting anomalies in network data.… Read more

Statistical characterisation of Round Trip Times (RTT) series is useful for network management. For example, if several paths are available between a source and a destination, say in a routing overlay context, it may be useful to select the path dynamically based on some inference on the current Quality of Service (QoS) of each path. In this post we explain how HDP-HMM models can be used to model RTT series and discuss possible applications of such modeling.… Read more

Using zone files for managing the Domain Name System (DNS) zone data is the most basic and flexible way to manage the authoritative DNS data. In this post, we will describe how the Git version control system can be used to store zone file history and protect against errors. … Read more

Humans are pretty good at finding patterns in network measurements, but it can be difficult to automate this so one can process many time series at the same time. Now we have an expert in the house who can help us with this.… Read more

You can now fund tickets to send someone from an underrepresented group in tech to attend a RIPE Meeting. … Read more

On 3 January, the number of connected RIPE Atlas anchors hit 400. Here's a look at some of the recent developments that helped get us there.… Read more