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RIPE Atlas Success Story: Zoom-in on Germany

RIPE Atlas Success Story: Zoom-in on Germany

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Vesna Manojlovic

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Here is an example of how cross-pollination between two or more communities can create success. An overlap between IETF participants, RIPE Atlas users and listeners of a popular German podcast has led to growth in the deployment of RIPE Atlas probes (hardware devices that measure Internet infrastru…

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RIPE Atlas: Countering Hardware Issues with Better Firmware

RIPE Atlas: Countering Hardware Issues with Better Firmware

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Robert Kisteleki

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As RIPE Atlas is expanding, it is approaching the magical milestone of 10,000 probes. However, as our public graphs also illustrate, the expansion has slowed down recently.

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Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

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Emile Aben

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We had a look at various RIPE NCC data sets to see what we can learn from yet another country-wide Internet outage in 2016.

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Ambassador, You Are Spoiling Us

Ambassador, You Are Spoiling Us

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Vesna Manojlovic

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At the RIPE NCC, we are grateful for the contribution RIPE Atlas ambassadors make to the success of the RIPE Atlas measurements platform. In this article, we focus on a handy RIPEstat tool that can be used to visualise the results of their efforts. The tool provides a historical view of country-spe…

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Reasons Dynamic Addresses Change

Reasons Dynamic Addresses Change

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Ramakrishna Padmanabhan

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We look into why dynamic addresses change and find ISPs that renumber periodically, most commonly every 24 hours or a multiple of 24 hours. We also find that outages influence address changes.

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Changes to RIPE Atlas API Keys

Changes to RIPE Atlas API Keys

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Alun Davies

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We’ve made some changes to RIPE Atlas API Keys with the aim of improving the experience of RIPE Atlas users. The changes are designed to boost transparency and efficiency in the way users are able to manage their API Keys.

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Large BGP Communities - Largely Accepted Now?

Large BGP Communities - Largely Accepted Now?

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Emile Aben

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Large BGP Communities are an addition to BGP that solves a communication problem between networks that want to use 32-bit AS Numbers. We measured how Large BGP Communities behave "in the wild" and if they create any problems.

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Routing Detours: Can We Avoid Nation-State Surveillance?

Routing Detours: Can We Avoid Nation-State Surveillance?

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Annie Edmundson

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An increasing number of countries are passing laws that facilitate the mass surveillance of their citizens. In response, governments and citizens are increasingly paying attention to the countries that their Internet traffic traverses. In some cases, countries are taking extreme steps, such as bui…

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Ethics of RIPE Atlas Measurements

Ethics of RIPE Atlas Measurements

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Robert Kisteleki

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This article is intended to make RIPE Atlas users aware of ethical issues that could arise when using RIPE Atlas. We do not intend to propose any new formal processes or procedures to address the relevant ethical issues, but we do want to encourage members of the RIPE Atlas community to consider th…

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