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Anchoring Measurements: Bringing Back the Balance

Anchoring Measurements: Bringing Back the Balance

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Alun Davies

5 min read

Ever since the RIPE Atlas anchor network went online, the RIPE NCC has been scheduling anchoring measurements to provide a clear overview of the health of the network. Over time, however, a certain imbalance has crept into such measurements. Here's a look at the problem along with our solution.

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Update: First Five Sponsored RIPE Atlas Anchors

Next Five Sponsored RIPE Atlas Anchors

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Alun Davies

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The second phase of the RIPE NCC’s campaign to sponsor 15 RIPE Atlas anchors has been completed, with another five anchor hosts selected for sponsorship. We want to tell you about the new anchor hosts and also take a look at some related developments here at the RIPE NCC.

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Talking Traffic at TMA 2017

Talking Traffic at TMA 2017

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Stephen Strowes

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Last week, the Network Traffic, Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) took place in Maynooth, Ireland. A full week was scheduled, featuring a PhD school across Monday and Tuesday, the Mobile Network Measurements (MNM) workshop on Tuesday, and the main conference from Wednesday to Friday. We wer…

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BGP Meets Cat

BGP Meets Cat

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Christian Teuschel

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As controversial as the title sounds much attention was drawn last weekend to RIPEstat when Job Snijders (@JobSnijders) revealed his creation of a Nyan Cat painted by smartly managing the visibility of 175 /24 prefixes.

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Recursives in the Wild: Engineering Authoritative DNS Servers

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Moritz Müller

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By analysing how resolvers select authoritative name servers in the wild we investigated how DNS operators are able to reduce DNS response times.

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Why is the Internet so Slow?

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Mirjam Kühne

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Ilker Nadi Bozkurt and his colleagues found that the Internet is much slower than it could be. They wonder where this slowdown comes from and what can be done about it.

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Using Raspberry Pis for Cheap Wi-Fi Monitoring

Using Raspberry Pis for Cheap Wi-Fi Monitoring

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Fredrik Strupe

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Wi-Fi monitoring solutions can be expensive and inflexible. At UNINETT we're developing a system to tackle this problem.

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Announcing Daily RIPE Atlas Data Archives

Announcing Daily RIPE Atlas Data Archives

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Petros Gigis

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In this article we present a new way to access the dataset on the RIPE Atlas platform. Instead of fetching individual results from measurements using the available APIs, now you can download files containing public measurements for a given day. You can also specify the type of measurement and the I…

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What Stops IPv6 Traffic in a Dual-stack ISP?

What Stops IPv6 Traffic in a Dual-stack ISP?

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Mirjam Kühne

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Please read this guest post by Enric Pujol, a network data analyst. Enric is looking at potential barriers that prevent ISPs to carry more traffic over IPv6.

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Using RIPE Atlas Measurement Results in Prometheus

Using RIPE Atlas Measurement Results in Prometheus

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Daniel Czerwonk

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In this article I describe how I am using the atlas_exporter to export metrics based on RIPE Atlas results to Prometheus.

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