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RIPE Atlas Roadmap: October 2012 Update

RIPE Atlas Roadmap: October 2012 Update

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Vesna Manojlovic

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While developing RIPE Atlas, we are maintaining and publishing a roadmap to keep the RIPE community involved and informed of the features we are working on. Please find below our achievements in October, and plans for November 2012 and beyond.

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RIPEstat Demo (s2e06)

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Vesna Manojlovic

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The sixth RIPEstat demo of 2012 gives an overview of the new user interface, an update on the new features, as well as plans for the future. It was recorded during the RIPE 65 Meeting in Amsterdam, where users had the chance to meet the developers and ask questions face to face.

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RIPE Atlas - Superstorm Sandy

RIPE Atlas - Superstorm Sandy

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Emile Aben

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After causing lots of damage in the Caribbean, superstorm Sandy is having a devastating effect on the US East Coast. We looked at the RIPE Atlas network to find out what effects this superstorm has on the Internet. Below are some preliminary results of what we saw.

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Counting IPv6 in the DNS

Counting IPv6 in the DNS

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Geoff Huston

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At the recent ARIN XXX meeting in October 2012 I listened to a debate on a policy proposal concerning the reservation of a pool of IPv4 addresses to address critical infrastructure. The term "critical infrastructure" is intended to cover a variety of applications, including use by public Internet E…

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IXP Traffic Levels During the Stratos Skydive

IXP Traffic Levels During the Stratos Skydive

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Fergal Cunningham

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Together with Euro-IX we take a look at Internet Exchange Point (IXP) traffic levels during Felix Baumgartner's 39-kilometre jump to Earth, and we take a closer look at what exactly we can see at IXPs.

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Comparing TCP and UDP Response Times of DNS Root Servers

Comparing TCP and UDP Response Times of DNS Root Servers

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We did some measurements on the round-trip (RT) values of DNS queries for SOA (Start of Authority) records from our RIPE Atlas probes, over both UDP and TCP. We plotted the TCP/UDP ratios on graphs, and found that, as expected, for the majority of the measurements, it is around 2. However, we also …

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RIPE Atlas - A Case Study of AAAA Filtering

RIPE Atlas - A Case Study of AAAA Filtering

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Emile Aben

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At the recent RIPE Meeting, the question was raised whether Internet users would see significant filtering of AAAA DNS queries or replies. We used RIPE Atlas measurements to provide an answer to this question.

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RIPE Atlas Roadmap: September 2012 Update

RIPE Atlas Roadmap: September 2012 Update

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Vesna Manojlovic

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While developing RIPE Atlas, we are maintaining and publishing a roadmap to keep the RIPE community involved and informed of the features we are working on. This update was presented last week at the RIPE 65 meting. We are curious to get your feedback.

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IPv6 RIPEness - More Stars

IPv6 RIPEness - More Stars

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Emile Aben

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IPv6 RIPEness helped in creating awareness and got people into action with regards to their first steps towards deploying IPv6 in the RIPE NCC service region. Up until now IPv6 RIPEness didn't measure actual IPv6 deployment. In this article we propose a measure (a "5th star"), which attempts to mea…

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Using RIPE Atlas: A DENIC Case Study

Using RIPE Atlas: A DENIC Case Study

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When we experienced an occasional operational issue with the data returned by one of our name servers, we wanted to verify DNS responses from a number of widely distributed measurement points (vantage points). RIPE Atlas was just the right service to provide us with the necessary raw data.

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