Measurements and Statistics
PeeringDB 2021 Product Report
Leo Vegoda is developing PeeringDB’s product roadmap. He was previously responsible for organizational planning and improvement in ICANN’s Office of the COO, and Internet Number Resources in the IANA department, as well as running Registration Services at the RIPE NCC.
Data quality was ranked most important by respondents to PeeringDB's 2020 and 2021 user surveys. This update focuses on several improvements we've made to improve the quality of data going into PeeringDB and help users get precisely what they want out of it.
Pi-hole Installation Guide
Ever wondered how to set up Pi-hole with your own recursive DNS server using DNSSEC? Here's how!
The Kazakhstan Outage - As Seen from RIPE Atlas
I'm a system architect/research coordinator at the RIPE NCC, where I work in the science group. I'm a chemist by training, but have been working since 1998 on Internet related things, as a sysadmin, security consultant, web developer and researcher. I am interested in technology changes (like IPv6 deployment), Internet measurement, data analysis, data visualisation, sustainability and security. I'd like to bring research and operations closer together, ie. do research that is operationally relevant. When I'm not working I like to make music (electric guitar, bass and drums), do sports (swimming, (inline) skating, bouldering, soccer), and try to be a good parent.
Starting at approximately 11:15 UTC on 5 January, we noticed what appeared to be a large scale Internet outage in Kazakhstan. We've been tracking the outage in RIPE Atlas since.
RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Cyprus, Israel and Malta
Suzanne Taylor is a Public Policy & Internet Governance Consultant. In her work with the RIPE NCC, she engages with a broad range of Internet stakeholders including the RIPE NCC membership, governments, law enforcement and intergovernmental organisations. From 2012 to 2016, she worked in communications at the RIPE NCC and has previously worked as a journalist and in media relations and science communications.
We take a comprehensive look at three different countries in the Mediterranean region as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Internet Country Reports.
Micro BGP Suite: The Swiss Army Knife of Routing Analysis
Lorenzo Cogotti is a programmer and free software enthusiast. He is founder and lead of The DoubleFourteen Code Forge, an ethical software development organization promoting independent research and good software practices.
BGP Scanner from the Isolario project helped researchers analyse routing data, but it had its limitations. Overcoming these has led to the development of the Micro BGP Suite. It provides a variety of tools that, while each simple and efficient in their own operations, are capable of achieving compl…
Best Practices for Connecting to NTP Servers
Using the Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a simple and effective way to set your local time. But how can you ensure that the time you are getting is correct, what can you do to improve time accuracy, and how do you decide which NTP servers are best for you?
Latency Into Your Network - As Seen From RIPE Atlas
I'm a system architect/research coordinator at the RIPE NCC, where I work in the science group. I'm a chemist by training, but have been working since 1998 on Internet related things, as a sysadmin, security consultant, web developer and researcher. I am interested in technology changes (like IPv6 deployment), Internet measurement, data analysis, data visualisation, sustainability and security. I'd like to bring research and operations closer together, ie. do research that is operationally relevant. When I'm not working I like to make music (electric guitar, bass and drums), do sports (swimming, (inline) skating, bouldering, soccer), and try to be a good parent.
We created a data aggregate we call 'minRTT' that gives the minimum latency into each ASN (and IXP!) from RIPE Atlas for a given day. This allows us to visualise network deployments and can help with insights into structural latency problems for a network. We build a few visualisations on top of th…
Hunting Routing Resources with IRRHound
I took my master's degree in Computer Engineering from Tor Vergata University in 2004, and started working with Namex shortly after. Since those early years I have supervised the technical and infrastructural development of the exchange point, firstly as a member of the technical staff and then, starting from 2008, serving as Chief Technology Officer with responsibility over the technical infrastructure and daily operations. Following my desire to stay in touch with technology I recently assumed the role of Chief Engineering Officer, taking on the responsibility for the development of Namex exchange platform and related services, hopefully helping Namex entering into its next-generation era. Beside networking, I have strong interests in software and systems engineering, object-oriented software design and programming, web and automation tools development.
Choosing the right IRR source list for each IXP participant is becoming a challenging task. But help is at hand! IRRHound assists in tracking routing resources across multiple IRR sources.
Help Build a Bigger, Better RIPE Atlas
When it comes to RIPE Atlas, bigger is better. Each new probe adds another vantage point, bringing the measurement platform closer to its goal of providing an unprecedented view of the state of the Internet. But expansion into new geographical locations and networks wouldn't be possible without the…
Facebook Down and Out in BGPlay
Hailing from a research background in philosophy, linguistics and computer science, I came to the RIPE NCC back in 2016 and took on my role as the RIPE Labs Editor in 2020.
Following the Facebook outage that took place on 4 October, we saw people looking to BGPlay to get a better view of what went on. Here's a look at what the RIPEstat visualisation has to show us about the event in question.