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The New RIPEstat In Other Words

The New RIPEstat In Other Words

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Stephen Suess

4 min read

In May, with the aim of improving the experience for all RIPEstat users, we started a complete redesign of the RIPEstat user interface. With the prototype UI having received a lot of positive feedback, we’re still busy adding new features, one of which will allow users to switch between languages w…

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Internet Clouds are (also) Unpredictable: A Study on the Effects of Recent Traffic Engineering Trends In Cloud Provider Networks

Internet Clouds are (also) Unpredictable: A Study on the Effects of Recent Traffic Engineering Trends In Cloud Provider Networks

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Marco Chiesa

8 min read

How does the largest cloud provider worldwide perform Traffic-Engineering? What are the implications for the geo-distributed applications running in the cloud? We explored these and more questions through a comprehensive set of measurements across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud network.

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25,000 LIRs - An End to the Milestone Highs?

25,000 LIRs - An End to the Milestone Highs?

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Rene Wilhelm

12 min read

Little more than twelve months after we passed the 20,000 active LIRs mark, the number of LIR accounts reached a new milestone on 2 October 2019. As the number of available IPv4 addresses in our pool dropped to 3 million, applications for new LIRs exploded. In July alone, we saw a record number of…

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How to Choose DNS TTL Values

How to Choose DNS TTL Values

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Giovane Moura

10 min read

There is no consensus on how to choose DNS time-to-live (TTL) values for domain names. Yet, TTLs are incredibly important, given that they indirectly control how long resolvers cache records, directly influencing user experience.

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How Diverse is RIS?

How Diverse is RIS?

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Emile Aben

8 min read

Is the current set of the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS) peers providing a good level of diverse data? Let's look at some measurement results.

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Measuring the Impact of DNS Flag Day

Measuring the Impact of DNS Flag Day

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Willem Toorop

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DNS Flag Day was the result of a collaborative effort and agreement of DNS implementers and DNS resolver operators to commit to no longer providing workarounds for non-standards-compliant authoritative nameservers as of 1 February 2019. In the lead up to DNS Flag Day, and as part of the outreach…

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Routing to and from the Netherlands

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Marco Hogewoning

5 min read

Following earlier publications, Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands asked if we could perform an analysis of the Dutch market – in particular, the routing arrangements between networks.

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Analysing Global CDN Performance

Analysing Global CDN Performance

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Emir Beganović

16 min read

We investigate commercial CDNs performance by analysing their latency to end-users worldwide.

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Five Years at the Edge: Recording the Evolution of Web Usage from an ISP

Five Years at the Edge: Recording the Evolution of Web Usage from an ISP

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Danilo Giordano

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While 2018 has no doubt been another big year in the world of the Internet, it often pays to look at how it compares to previous years to understand and forecast growth or decline trends.

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Geopolitics of Routing

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LOUIS PETINIAUD

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The goal of this article is to introduce a methodological basis for a geopolitical analysis of the Internet and to illustrate the geopolitics of cyberspace. For this purpose, we used the BGP feeds provided by the RIPE Routing Information Service to regularly infer AS-level connectivity graphs. We h…

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