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Reducing the RIPE NCC's Data Centre Footprint

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Felipe Victolla Silveira

6 min read

RIPE Atlas and Routing Information Service (RIS) are highly valued services provided by the RIPE NCC to our members and overall community. Due to the very large amounts of data we collect and store, it is imperative that these services are built on a cost-effective platform, allowing us to provide …

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Collaborative DDoS Mitigation: From Research to Operational Practice

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Thijs van den Hout

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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to plague the Internet and pose a risk to the availability of critical digital systems that we increasingly depend on in our daily lives. Thijs van den Hout and his colleagues outline their contributions and lessons learned from 5 years of resea…

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Advancing Internet Technologies in South East Europe

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Qasim Lone

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On 22-23 April, the South East Europe Internet community will come together in Athens, Greece, to explore trends in the adoption of Internet technologies across the region. In preparation for the discussions to take place, we’ve been examining changes in key Internet tech, such as IPv6 and RPKI.

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Internet Sanctions on Russian Media: Diverging Actions and Mixed Effects

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Moritz Müller

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EU sanctions on Russian controlled content require ISPs in member states to block access to websites. But our research reveals that their implementation varies widely, both between and within individual EU member states, raising important questions about their effectiveness.

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Measuring NAT64 Usage in the Wild

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Elizabeth Boswell

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With IPv4 address space depleted, it's increasingly important to transition to IPv6. IPv6 transition mechanisms, which allow the two protocols to interoperate, can help. One such mechanism is NAT64. We use RIPE Atlas to measure the usage of NAT64, and compare NAT64 paths to native IPv4 paths.

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Qasim Lone: Something's Wrong on the Internet

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Alun Davies

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The Internet is hardly foolproof in its design, and whether by accident or on purpose, the people who use and operate it sometimes don't do things they should or do do things they shouldn't. Qasim Lone talks about strange goings on he's investigated and how RIPE Atlas can help researchers in the fi…

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Crashing the Party – Vulnerabilities in RPKI Relying Party Software

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Niklas Vogel

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RPKI adoption is on the rise. And that's a good thing. But as the number of networks deploying RPKI grows, so does the potential impact of vulnerabilities in its implementation. CURE is a novel fuzzing tool developed by ATHENE researchers to test vulnerabilities in RPKI Replying Party software.

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KeyTrap Algorithmic Complexity Attacks Exploit Fundamental Design Flaw in DNSSEC

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Haya Schulmann

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KeyTrap - described by some as 'the worst attack on DNS ever discovered' - is capable of exhausting CPU resources and stalling widely used DNS implementations and public DNS providers, like Google Public DNS and Cloudflare. The research team from ATHENE explain how they discovered the attack.

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The State of Reverse DNS

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Arnold Dechamps

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Most people know DNS for the part that resolves a domain name to an IP address. Reverse DNS, as the name suggests, works the other way around, and is generally less talked about. The question is, when people do implement reverse DNS, are they taking steps to keep it secure?

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Sanremo and Internet Traffic in Italy

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Flavio Luciani

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The Sanremo Festival is the most important and prestigious music event in Italy, organised and broadcast live across the country by RAI, Italy's main public broadcaster. Flavio Luciani from Namex examines the week of the event from the perspective of an Internet eXchange Point.

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