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RIPE Atlas - Pre-registration Open Now

RIPE Atlas - Pre-registration Open Now

Robert Kisteleki

6 min read

The launch date of our new active measurements network, RIPE Atlas, is close. We already received a lot of interest and offers to host such a probe. In this article, we explain some more details about how to participate in this effort.

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IPv6 Crawler and Matrix

IPv6 Crawler and Matrix

Mirjam Kühne

5 min read

Olivier Crepin-Leblond from the Internet Society chapter in England is announcing the results of a tool they designed and implemented. It is an “IPv6 crawler" that crawls through the DNS to detect IPv6 compliant servers. The results were interesting and can be viewed on an "IPv6 Matrix" showing IP…

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Visibility of Prefix Lengths in IPv4 and IPv6

Visibility of Prefix Lengths in IPv4 and IPv6

Devin Bayer

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In this article we explore the relation between global network visibility as seen by the Routing Information Service (RIS) and the length of announced prefixes.

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Interesting Graph - IPv4 Unassigned

Interesting Graph - IPv4 Unassigned

Mirjam Kühne

4 min read

With the IPv4 address space nearing its end, we are closely monitoring the number of address not yet assigned or allocated. See below one way of measuring them.

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Wanted: Partners to Sponsor "RIPE Atlas" Effort

Wanted: Partners to Sponsor "RIPE Atlas" Effort

Daniel Karrenberg

8 min read

This is the next in a series of articles about the new active measurements network, which now has a name: "RIPE Atlas". In this article I will describe the current planning for the pilot. This is also a call for sponsors which will be needed to make the measurement network really big.

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Background Radiation in IPv6

Background Radiation in IPv6

Mirjam Kühne

17 min read

Geoff Huston investigated to what extent the IPv6 Internet is polluted by "background radiation". Find below some interesting results and observations.

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Active Measurements - Hosting a Probe

Active Measurements - Hosting a Probe

Daniel Karrenberg

8 min read

Why YOU may want to host a small probe to help with large scale active Internet measurements.

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NLANR AMP Data

NLANR AMP Data

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This data is a set of active measurements (ping/traceroute) collected by the NLANR research group. The data consists of measurements in a mesh of up to 130 vantage points and the measurements ran between 1998 and 2006. This data is useful for longitudinal study of the Internet. The data available…

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iPlane traceroute Dataset

iPlane traceroute Dataset

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The RIPE NCC mirrored this dataset until 2019. The original data can be found here: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~harshavm/iplane/ . This dataset contains traceroutes from PlanetLab nodes and traceroute servers that were done as part of the iPlane project at the University of Washington between 2006 …

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BGP Route Origin Validation - A follow-up

BGP Route Origin Validation - A follow-up

David Murray

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In July 2010 we looked at the effects of BGP route origin validation on mis-announcements and hijackings. In the meantime, we did some research based on comments and questions received by the community. The findings are described in this follow-up article.

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