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Cyclone Pam and the Internet in Vanuatu

Rene Wilhelm

• 13 Mar 2015

• 3 min read

While the cyclone Pam is battering the South Pacific, we're monitoring how this affects Vanuatu.

Quality of ROAs in RPKI Repositories

Daniele Iamartino

• 10 Mar 2015

• 5 min read

RPKI.me is a website collecting statistics and information about objects in the RPKI repositories. The web page shows some of the most problematic ROAs present and suggests possible fixes.

Tracebox, a Tool to Detect Middleboxes

Julien Colmonts

• 25 Feb 2015

• 7 min read

The increasing number of middleboxes (such as firewalls, NATs, proxies, or Deep Packet Inspection) has raised concerns over the impact of such middleboxes on the network and the possibility to innovate. As a result, operators and researchers are studying the distribution and behaviour of middleboxe…

Stopping Support for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP in RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat

Robert Kisteleki

• 24 Feb 2015

• 2 min read

Microsoft ended support for Windows XP as of April 2014. We're about to change RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat to stop support for Internet Explorer 8 running on these systems.

RIPE NCC Membership - Developments After Reaching the Last /8

Rene Wilhelm

• 23 Feb 2015

• 20 min read

On 14 September 2012, the RIPE NCC started allocating IPv4 addresses based on the last /8 policy. With more than two years passed, we look at the effects this had on membership numbers and demographics. We also look at what the last /8 policy meant for IPv6 uptake.

NTP Measurements with RIPE Atlas

Philip Homburg

• 17 Feb 2015

• 13 min read

This article describes how RIPE Atlas probes and anchors maintain their clocks, and how accurate these clocks are. We also plan to make the NTP measurements we describe here available as an additional measurement type for RIPE Atlas users.

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Visualising Network Outages With RIPE Atlas

Emile Aben

• 3 Feb 2015

• 7 min read

This article shows some prototypes of visualising network outages with RIPE Atlas using CartoDB.

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#facebookdown? What Internet Measurement Data Shows

Emile Aben

• 27 Jan 2015

• 6 min read

While at this point it is still unclear what exactly happened at Facebook this morning (27 January), we collect data on the Internet control plane (BGP) and data plane that allows us to provide some insight into what happened with Facebook's connectivity to the rest of the Internet.