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RIPE Atlas Year in Review 2015

RIPE Atlas Year in Review 2015

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Suzanne Taylor

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RIPE Atlas had another successful year in 2015, thanks in large part to all our users, hosts, sponsors, ambassadors and other community members. Here we take a look back at some of the achievements we reached together, the new features we implemented, key facts and figures - and offer a sneak peek …

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Measuring More Internet with RIPE Atlas

Measuring More Internet with RIPE Atlas

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Emile Aben

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RIPE Atlas collects a lot of measurements. But how much of the Internet are we actually measuring? We had a sense that with a limited amount of extra load on the system, we could dramatically increase the number of router IPs seen on a given day in RIPE Atlas - and that means measuring more of the …

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RIPE Atlas WiFi Measurements - Part 2

RIPE Atlas WiFi Measurements - Part 2

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Suzanne Taylor

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A little while ago, we asked what you thought about the idea of conducting WiFi measurements in RIPE Atlas. After some consideration and community feedback, we now want to propose a way to implement this feature in RIPE Atlas and clarify exactly how these measurements will benefit the RIPE Atlas co…

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Exploring the Idea of RIPE Atlas Virtual Probes

Exploring the Idea of RIPE Atlas Virtual Probes

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Suzanne Taylor

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The concept of virtual probes is one that RIPE Atlas users have asked about for quite some time. Although we don't plan to make virtual probes available in 2016, we do plan to investigate this idea and develop some prototypes.

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Keeping the Registry Up to Date in a World of IPv4 Transfers

Keeping the Registry Up to Date in a World of IPv4 Transfers

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Matt Parker

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High quality registry data is important - even more so with the recent increase in address transfers and the exhaustion of the global IPv4 pool. This article explores how we will be enhancing our tools and processes to ensure the RIPE Registry remains up-to-date in this challenging environment.

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DNS Censorship (DNS Lies) As Seen By RIPE Atlas

DNS Censorship (DNS Lies) As Seen By RIPE Atlas

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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More and more governments, authorities and courts are requesting censorship of Internet content. It is often done via a lying DNS resolver. Can we use RIPE Atlas probes to see it, and how?

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Announcing the CLI Toolset for RIPE Atlas

Announcing the CLI Toolset for RIPE Atlas

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Suzanne Taylor

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RIPE Atlas users have been asking us for some time to support a command-line interface (CLI), and we're pleased to announce that it's now available.

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DomainMON Matrix

RIPE Atlas: DomainMON is Here

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Suzanne Taylor

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A few weeks ago we gave you a heads up about a new visualisation tool in RIPE Atlas called DomainMON, and we're pleased to announce that this is now available for all RIPE Atlas users with available credits.

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RIPE Atlas Tools Hackathon Results

RIPE Atlas Tools Hackathon Results

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Vesna Manojlovic

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The second RIPE Atlas hackathon took place in November 2015 in conjunction with the RIPE 71 meeting. Impressive results were hacked together by programmers and operators during an intensive weekend of work and fun in Bucharest. In this article we celebrate the hackathon achievements and report abo…

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Examining IPv6 Performance

Examining IPv6 Performance

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Geoff Huston

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Every so often I hear the claim that some service or other does not support IPv6 not because of some technical issue, or some cost or business issue, but simply because the service operator is of the view that IPv6 offers an inferior level service as compared to IPv4, and by offering the service ov…

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