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A Tale of Using Public DNS Servers in Iran — Part 3

A Tale of Using Public DNS Servers in Iran — Part 3

Babak Farrokhi

8 min read

Following my research on DNS reachability and performance, I found interesting results for specific domain names.

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RIPE NCC Members and Multiple LIR Accounts

RIPE NCC Members and Multiple LIR Accounts

Laura Cobley

7 min read

The RIPE NCC membership has raised concerns regarding members setting up additional Local Internet Registry (LIR) accounts. The RIPE NCC Executive Board is now asking the RIPE NCC membership to discuss this. The article below provides some background information, data and statistics for the discuss…

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A Tale of Using Public DNS Servers in Iran — Part 2

A Tale of Using Public DNS Servers in Iran — Part 2

Babak Farrokhi

8 min read

This is the second part in a series of articles looking at the use of DNS servers in Iran. For the second part I will continue measuring performance and reachability for two more sets of DNS resolvers: TIC and Verisign.

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A Tale of Using Public DNS Servers in Iran — Part 1

A Tale of Using Public DNS Servers in Iran — Part 1

Babak Farrokhi

4 min read

While most Internet users are not aware of the importance of DNS resolution in their overall web browsing experience, they often complain about shortage of bandwidth when experiencing sluggish Internet connectivity. It is no surprise that most of the service providers also ignore this fact by re…

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Christmas Gift Idea: Some IPv6 Experience

Christmas Gift Idea: Some IPv6 Experience

Marco Hogewoning

4 min read

The holiday season is rapidly approaching and this year is coming to a close, another one done and another one that seen some great and wonderful and also unfortunately some sad moments. One of those key moments was the depletion of the IPv4 pool in the ARIN region, which for some probably means…

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Looking at France-IX with RIPE Atlas and RIS

Looking at France-IX with RIPE Atlas and RIS

Emile Aben

8 min read

This article describes our recent collaborations with France-IX on collecting data plane and control plane Internet data with RIPE Atlas and the RIPE NCC's Routing Information Service (RIS).

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The Internet in North Korea - Hanging by a Single Thread?

The Internet in North Korea - Hanging by a Single Thread?

Emile Aben

13 min read

North Korea is one of the most secluded countries in the world, but it is nonetheless connected to the Internet. We investigate North Korea's Internet connectivity in light of recent outages and discuss the fragile nature of its setup.

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Is It Really Worth Peering at IXPs? A Comparative Study

Is It Really Worth Peering at IXPs? A Comparative Study

roberto di lallo

15 min read

We investigated the role IXPs play in the Italian Internet ecosystem. Do peerings at IXPs have a positive effect on key performance indicators such as latency, hop count, packet loss and jitter? Do they reduce the number of out-of-country ISPs traversed by traffic between users located in Italy and…

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Improving RIPE Atlas Coverage - Which Networks Are Missing?

Improving RIPE Atlas Coverage - Which Networks Are Missing?

Emile Aben

11 min read

In this article we compare RIPE Atlas deployment against user population estimates provided by APNIC to see which eyeball networks are missing out on RIPE Atlas probes.

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EuroDIG 2015 Report by Corinne Cath

EuroDIG 2015 Report by Corinne Cath

Marco Hogewoning

4 min read

For EuroDIG 2015, held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 3 and 4 June 2015, the RIPE NCC was pleased to be able to support the participation of Corinne Cath, who presented her work on human rights in the development of technical protocols at the recent RIPE 70 Cooperation Working Group session. Below is her im…

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