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Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon

Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon

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Vesna Manojlovic

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While working from home during the global health crisis, we organised a virtual hackathon. The event lasted several weeks and aimed to measure and visualise the health of the Internet.

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The BGP Tuner: Intuitive Anycast Management

The BGP Tuner: Intuitive Anycast Management

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Joao M. Ceron

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DNS operators have very few intelligent real-time tools that enable them to monitor their anycast services, for instance during a DDoS attack. In this post, we describe the challenges associated with measuring anycast services and propose a tool called the BGP Tuner. By using our open-source tool, …

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From REX to RIPEstat: a Look at the Past and the Challenges Ahead

From REX to RIPEstat: a Look at the Past and the Challenges Ahead

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Christian Teuschel

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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.

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Easy BGP Monitoring with BGPalerter

Easy BGP Monitoring with BGPalerter

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Massimo Candela

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This is a brief tutorial that explains how to monitor BGP prefixes easily and effectively. For this purpose, we will use an open-source application named BGPalerter which is ready to go and requires almost no configuration. Currently, we use this solution at NTT, one of the largest global providers…

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RIPE NCC Country Report: Southeast Europe

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Suzanne Taylor

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We examine the Internet landscape in eight different countries in Southeast Europe as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Country Reports.

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Internet Usage Measurements in the Time of Corona

Internet Usage Measurements in the Time of Corona

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Vesna Manojlovic

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Many organisations are measuring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Internet performance: in this article, we look at four recent reports.

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Network Delays in Times of Corona

Network Delays in Times of Corona

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Romain Fontugne

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As part of the Internet health hackathon, we studied RIPE Atlas delay signals before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's what we found.

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After the Quake in Croatia

After the Quake in Croatia

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Vesna Manojlovic

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After the recent earthquake in Croatia we looked at RIPE Atlas and RIS data to visualise the impact a large event like this can have on the resilience of the Internet.

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Internet Stability in Times of Corona

Internet Stability in Times of Corona

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Emile Aben

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In this article we're sharing observations we made in the RIPE Routing Information System (RIS), our Internet data plane observatory.

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What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses?

What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses?

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Philip Homburg

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...or, how RIPE Atlas measurement data just got a little bit more complex. Some people say IPv6 is "96 more bits, no magic". And while this is true for most network operators, if you're a RIPE Atlas system programmer, you can run into interesting situations. In this article, we described how link-l…

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