Measurements and Statistics

Researchers' first Encounter with the IETF Community: Measuring TCP, HTTP/2 and QUIC

Torsten Zimmermann

• 4 Sep 2018

• 6 min read

As Ph.D. students, our typical encounter with the IETF community and their work is by stumbling over RFCs and Internet-Drafts that either relate to or are a fundamental basis for our research. Beyond that, for us, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been a vague entity focused on standar…

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Let's Connect! Easy to Install and Secure VPN Software that Respects your Privacy

Rogier Spoor

• 3 Sep 2018

• 3 min read

Going online on unknown Internet hotspots - whether at a restaurant, an airport or in a restaurant - isn't actually very safe or secure for users. This is due to the open character of hotspots which makes it easy to impersonate legitimate hotspots and eavesdrop on traffic - or even serve malware. T…

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Passive Observations of Large DNS Service

Wouter de Vries

• 29 Aug 2018

• 5 min read

In 2009, Google launched its Public DNS service, with its characteristic IP address 8.8.8.8. Since then, this service has grown to be the largest and most well-known DNS service in existence. Due to the centralisation that is caused by public DNS services, large content delivery networks (CDNs), su…

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The Uncertainty of Measuring the DNS

Geoff Huston

• 18 Jul 2018

• 22 min read

The period around the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth century saw a number of phenomenal advances in the physical sciences.

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Comparing Virtual and Metal RIPE Atlas Anchors

Stephen Strowes

• 4 Jul 2018

• 10 min read

Our VM pilot allows us an opportunity to run a like-for-like comparison between two RIPE Atlas anchors. We're grateful for the support from DigitalOcean, who are running two machines (one metal, one virtual) from the same geographical location.

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Outcome of the RIPE Atlas Anchor VMs Pilot

Robert Kisteleki

• 2 Jul 2018

• 7 min read

The pilot we ran to assess the feasibility of involving virtual machines in the pool of RIPE Atlas anchors is complete and the results are good.

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Lightweight 4over6: One-step Further Than Dual-stack Networks

Diego Pino Garcia

• 28 Jun 2018

• 5 min read

Dual-stack has been one of the most popular transition technologies used to deploy IPv6. This is largely because it allows for routing of IPv4 and IPv6 traffic in parallel.

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Real-Time Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Web Browsing Sessions

Antoine Saverimoutou

• 22 Jun 2018

• 7 min read

This post introduces the MORIS (Measuring and Observing Representative Information of webSites) probe, a tool for measuring automated web browsing sessions, which allows to estimate end-users’ QoE (Quality of Experience) in various situations and to perform troubleshooting when it is degraded.

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BGP Large Communities - Uptake by the Community at Large?

Emile Aben

• 20 Jun 2018

• 9 min read

In this article we look into the uptake of BGP Large Communities using the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS).

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Honeypot-based Monitoring of Amplification DDoS Attacks

Johannes Krupp

• 19 Jun 2018

• 5 min read

Amplification DDoS attacks are one of the most prevalent forms of denial-of-service attacks. The SISSDEN project (sissden.eu) operates a network of honeypots designed to detect these attacks, observing 10,000 per day.

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