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Enabling Data Compression in RIPE Atlas

Enabling Data Compression in RIPE Atlas

Daniel Quinn

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We’d like to enable gzip compression on all of RIPE Atlas' measurement API calls — but thanks to the BREACH vulnerability, doing so could mean that some enterprising individual with an obscene amount of time on their hands might be able read the contents of the responses. This means measurement res…

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HTTP Measurements with RIPE Atlas

HTTP Measurements with RIPE Atlas

Robert Kisteleki

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After a discussion with the community about HTTP measurements, we'll start implementing this as a publicly available measurement type.

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The AMS-IX Outage as Seen with RIPE Atlas

The AMS-IX Outage as Seen with RIPE Atlas

Robert Kisteleki

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During the RIPE 70 Meeting in Amsterdam this week (on 13 May around 10:00 UTC), we experienced a network outage at AMS-IX. Let's see how this was monitored by various tools.

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BGPdump2: A Tool to Read and Compare the BGP RIB Dump Files

BGPdump2: A Tool to Read and Compare the BGP RIB Dump Files

Yasuhiro Ohara

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We introduce a new tool to read BGP RIB dump files, called BGPdump2. It has a unique feature, in which users can compare routes from BGP RIB files in the ”diff”-like display format. It is good for checking the correctness of BGP operation by comparing one ISP’s BGP routing table to another ISP’s.

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On the Diversity of Interdomain Routing in Africa

On the Diversity of Interdomain Routing in Africa

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In 2013 and 2014 we looked into measuring Interdomain Routing in Africa using the RIPE Atlas infrastructure. This resulted in a paper published at the PAM (Passive and Active Measurement) 2015 conference. Here we present some highlights of this research.

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Measuring Countries and IXPs in the SEE Region

Measuring Countries and IXPs in the SEE Region

Emile Aben

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We looked at Internet measurements for the South East Europe (SEE) region in order to share these with attendees at the SEE 4 Meeting that took place from 21-22 April 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia. This is the long version of the lightning talk Vesna Manojlovic gave at SEE 4.

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RIPE Atlas DataViz Hackathon Results

RIPE Atlas DataViz Hackathon Results

Vesna Manojlovic

12 min read

In March 2015, a diverse group of contributors got together to come up with creative ways to visualise the health of the Internet using RIPE Atlas open measurements data. It was the first RIPE Atlas hackathon. Impressive results were hacked together by programmers, designers and operators during an…

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How Does the MENOG Region Measure Up?

How Does the MENOG Region Measure Up?

Mirjam Kühne

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With the MENOG 15 meeting taking place this week, we look at Internet measurements and statistics for countries in the MENOG region.

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Amsterdam Power Outage as Seen by RIPE Atlas

Amsterdam Power Outage as Seen by RIPE Atlas

Andreas Strikos

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There was a power outage last week in the north of The Netherlands, a country with a very high density of RIPE Atlas probes. This density provides us with some interesting data and visualisation.

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Measuring Countries and IXPs with RIPE Atlas

Measuring Countries and IXPs with RIPE Atlas

Emile Aben

12 min read

We've been working with various Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) over the last few months to see how RIPE Atlas active measurements can provide insight into how they are keeping local traffic local. This could help improve performance and efficiency for IXPs and their members. To explore this, we've…

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