Measurements and Statistics

IXP Tools Hackathon Results

Vesna Manojlovic

• 1 Nov 2016

• 6 min read

The fourth RIPE NCC Hackathon was as fun and productive as the previous three, with even more supporting organisations and participants. This short article aims to express our gratitude to everyone involved and to give a summary of our experiences, while several projects will be described in more d…

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A Quick Look at the Attack on Dyn

Massimo Candela

• 24 Oct 2016

• 6 min read

We used a number of RIPE NCC tools and data sets to take a quick look at the recent DDoS attack on Dyn’s infrastructure. We wanted to see if this could be found in the data produced by the RIPE Atlas community.

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IPv6 and the DNS

Geoff Huston

• 20 Oct 2016

• 19 min read

The exhortations about the Internet’s prolonged transition to version 6 of the Internet Protocol continue, although after some two decades the intensity of the rhetoric has faded and, possibly surprisingly, it has been replaced by action in some notable parts of the Internet. But how do we know the…

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Orange Blacklisting: A Case for Measuring Censorship

Stéphane Bortzmeyer

• 19 Oct 2016

• 2 min read

On 17 October 2016, a website hosted by the French Ministry of the Interior went offline when a large number of customers of the Internet service provider, Orange, were redirected to the site. The problem occurred after Google, Wikipedia and cloud provider OVH were mistakenly placed on a terrorism …

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Defending the Olympics from DDoS

Mirjam Kühne

• 18 Oct 2016

• 7 min read

Please read this guest post by Tony Scheid about fighting Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Non-Public Measurements in RIPE Atlas

Robert Kisteleki

• 18 Oct 2016

• 6 min read

"Non-public measurements" is a feature of RIPE Atlas that allows users to use the infrastructure to measure things while not sharing those results with the public. Is that still a useful feature? Should it exist in the future? Please take the polls.

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The RIPE NCC Academy - Two Years Later

Pedro da Silva Vaz

• 14 Oct 2016

• 4 min read

Two years ago we released the RIPE NCC Academy - an online training service. Now we've launched the third training module: the Local Internet Registry (LIR) course.

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What Can You Do with One Million RIPE Atlas Credits?

Vesna Manojlovic

• 12 Oct 2016

• 10 min read

RIPE Atlas lets you make customised measurements from thousands of probes around the world. These measurements cost credits, which users usually earn by hosting or sponsoring RIPE Atlas probes - or you may have just been given a million RIPE Atlas credits as a member of one of the Regional Internet…