From REX to RIPEstat: a Look at the Past and the Challenges Ahead
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RIPEstat will soon turn 10 years old, which I take as an opportunity to reflect on how RIPEstat came about, explain our new challenges and how we are tackling them.
Christian Teuschel
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Based in Amsterdam
Christian Teuschel joined the RIPE NCC in 2010 and is currently a System Architect in the Research and Development department. He is responsible for the development and operation of RIPEstat, a widely used, web-based interface that provides data on Internet address space and related information for countries and hostnames. He also contributes to RIPE Atlas and other services provided by the RIPE NCC. Christian is co-author of the RIPE Document "Sources of Abuse Contact Information for Abuse Handlers" (ripe-658). Expertise: RIPEstat, Internet measurements, Internet Abuse, RIPE Labs, Data Quality
Historical Whois
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The Historical Whois widget is a new RIPEstat widget that allows users to visually navigate through RIPE Database objects and their historical versions. It comes equipped with a set of handy features for comparing historical changes to objects in a diff-tool like fashion.
BGP Meets Cat
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As controversial as the title sounds much attention was drawn last weekend to RIPEstat when Job Snijders (@JobSnijders) revealed his creation of a Nyan Cat painted by smartly managing the visibility of 175 /24 prefixes.
Sand in the Gears
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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 ou…
Finding Abuse Contact Information with RIPEstat
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No one wants to have to deal with a suspected abuse case, but at least RIPEstat can help you to find available anti-abuse contact information in the RIPE Database easily. In this article we show you when and how you can use RIPEstat to do that.
Country Specific Graphs in RIPEstat
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In response to numerous requests made by our members and the wider community for more country-specific statistics, we developed additional functionality in RIPEstat that shows various datasets by country. A new widget called Country Routing Statistics is now available, along with the ability to com…
Join Us for the Next RIPEstat Demo (s2e04) - Live
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The next RIPEstat demo will be presented live at RIPE 64 in Ljubljana. After the demonstration there will be time to discuss RIPEstat development with other interested people. If you're not able to attend the demo, there are other opportunities to meet the people behind RIPEstat, and to watch a r…
RIPEstat Demo - s2e03
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The third RIPEstat demo for 2012 covered all the new and modified widgets we've added in the last month: ASN Neighbours, Geolocation History, Prefix Count, Prefix Size Distribution, Routing History, and Announced Prefixes. Other new features included enabling the RIPE NCC Access login system, and l…
RIPEstat: New Geolocation History Widget
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RIPEstat has a new widget: Geolocation History. Geolocation History provides information about the physical location of address space over time. This article describes the features of the widget, and explains how the results can be interpreted.
One Year of RIPEstat
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In December 2010, RIPEstat, the RIPE NCC's "one-stop shop" for Internet-related information, was released in its first beta version. With the start of a new year - marking RIPEstat's first year in action - it is a good time to briefly recap 2011.
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RIPEstat is Getting Ready for a Face-Lift
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The user interface (UI) of RIPEstat has become a familiar view for our user base, but after nine years of service we are starting to explore new concepts to improve the user experience on our information service. In this article we share our motivation, the guiding principles for the new UI and the…
Engaging the Internet Community in Georgia and Armenia
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The RIPE NCC is coming to Georgia and Armenia to carry out academic engagement, LEA training, seminars and member lunches in Armenia and Georgia.
TNC17 - Some Impressions - Day 1
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This week I am at the TNC17 Networking Conference in beautiful Linz and will share some impressions with you. Today: arts and science and inspiring lightning talks.
New Feature: Easily Embed your RIPEstat Widgets in RIPE Labs Articles
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It is now easier to embed a RIPEstat widget into your RIPE Labs articles. You can use RIPEstat widgets to show visualisations about IP address space, Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs), and related information for hostnames and countries.
Improved Routing Information Available via RIPEstat
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Our Routing Information Service (RIS) has been collecting global BGP routing information for 12 years. During this period, many different interfaces to analyse and visualise accumulated data have been developed. In line with our long-term goals to provide more consolidated services, we will be inte…
New in RIPEstat: In-widget Comparison and Monitoring
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RIPEstat users told us they wanted to be able to compare different resources in the same widget, and be able to monitor network events in real time. We're happy to announce that we've started to make this functionality available, beginning with two existing widgets: Country Routing Statistics and B…
RIPEstat's Multiple Widget and Resource Comparison
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RIPEstat users can now compare results for multiple resources across multiple widgets in a new comparison page - and share the results with others using the permalink feature. Here we describe several use cases where this new functionality might come in handy.
RIPEstat 2012 Year in Review
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Following up on our original summary of RIPEstat's first year, we take a look back at 2012 and review some of the highlights that have hopefully helped make RIPEstat an even more valuable tool for you, the users. We also give a sneak peek at some of the big developments we'll be hard at work on in …
Monitor the Syrian Blackout with RIPEstat
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The RIPE NCC developed a RIPEstat widget that provides a near real-time feed of what BGP updates and withdrawals we see from Syrian IP address space.
“it would be interesting to see number of transfers / number of addresses transferred per head of population.”
Hi Nick, We intend to provide a feature like that in the country-based reports as mentioned in the RIPE NCC's activity report for 2017, https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-671. Best regards, Christian (RIPE NCC)
“What time zone are the outputs in, UTC?”
Dear Haval, Yes, time information is provided in UTC! Best regards, Christian (RIPE NCC)
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