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Improved Routing Information Available via RIPEstat

Improved Routing Information Available via RIPEstat

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Fatemah Mafi

15 min read

Our Routing Information Service (RIS) has been collecting global BGP routing information for 12 years. During this period, many different interfaces to analyse and visualise accumulated data have been developed. In line with our long-term goals to provide more consolidated services, we will be inte…

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Future of RIPE NCC Technical Services

Future of RIPE NCC Technical Services

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Kaveh Ranjbar

12 min read

As the new Chief Information Officer at the RIPE NCC, I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some of my ideas about the future direction of the technical services we offer to the community. This includes focusing on RIPE Atlas as the RIPE NCC’s data collection system, RIPEstat as the R…

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IPv6 ASNs - Network Size Matters

IPv6 ASNs - Network Size Matters

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Emile Aben

5 min read

This article provides statistics about how much IPv4 address space is being announced by networks (ASNs) that are also announcing IPv6 address space. Currently this is about 70% of IPv4 address space.

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New in RIPEstat: In-widget Comparison and Monitoring

New in RIPEstat: In-widget Comparison and Monitoring

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Suzanne Taylor

7 min read

RIPEstat users told us they wanted to be able to compare different resources in the same widget, and be able to monitor network events in real time. We're happy to announce that we've started to make this functionality available, beginning with two existing widgets: Country Routing Statistics and B…

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All IP Addresses Are Equal? "dot-zero" Addresses Are Less Equal

All IP Addresses Are Equal? "dot-zero" Addresses Are Less Equal

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer

4 min read

In theory, all IP addresses are the same, and you can allocate them at random without a problem. 192.168.1.2 is certainly not better or worse than 192.168.1.15, right? But, in practice, certain IP addresses are regarded as "special" by some implementations and do not yield the same user experience.…

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RIPE Atlas Midsummer 2013 Community Update

RIPE Atlas Midsummer 2013 Community Update

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Vesna Manojlovic

9 min read

The RIPE Atlas community has been very active recently. This article highlights new community related features, and announcements related to RIPE Atlas anchor hosts, sponsors and "ambassadors". And it brings you lots of pretty pictures!

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RIPEstat's Multiple Widget and Resource Comparison

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Suzanne Taylor

7 min read

RIPEstat users can now compare results for multiple resources across multiple widgets in a new comparison page - and share the results with others using the permalink feature. Here we describe several use cases where this new functionality might come in handy.

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IPv6 Security - An Overview

IPv6 Security - An Overview

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Johannes Weber

7 min read

The advent of IPv6 changes not only the network components, but also the security field shifts. We see new types of attacks or at least variations of the attacks we know from IPv4. This article provides an overview of the IPv6 security vulnerabilities that arise with the launch of IPv6.

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Happy Eyeballs

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Happy Eyeballs

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Vaibhav Bajpai

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The IETF has developed solutions that promote a healthy IPv4 and IPv6 co-existence. The happy eyeballs algorithm for instance, provides recommendations to application developers to help prevent bad user experience in situations where IPv6 connectivity is broken. We study the effectiveness of the ha…

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