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PeeringDB Update April - September 2026

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Leo Vegoda

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The last six months has seen important improvements to PeeringDB. We've added in page maps for searches of interconnection facilities and improved the data quality for AS-SET names.

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CAPIF 5: Regional Interconnectivity in Central Asia

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Anastasiya Pak

15 min read

Central Asia’s Internet looks very different than it did back at CAPIF 1. We trace the rise of direct regional routes, stronger routing security and new connectivity options - along with the gaps that remain.

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The /3 Body Problem

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Remco van Mook

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A large chunk of IPv6 is heading for space, and every policy question about it is currently going to be deferred to the RIR communities. This article outlines what those questions look like, and argues why now is the time to start asking them.

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From Cables to Content: Who Builds the Edge - and Who Connects to It

The Internet’s New Edge Builders

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Arman Obosyan

15 min read

After building private backbones, content and cloud platforms are now moving closer to users. In doing so, they are taking on delivery roles once associated mainly with independent CDNs.

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Closing the IPv6 First-Packet Gap with GRAND

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Seyed Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani

11 min read

There is a subtle asymmetry in IPv6 Neighbour Discovery: a host knows how to reach its router before the router necessarily knows how to reach the host. GRAND fixes that asymmetry by making the host proactively advertise its address, and I implemented that mechanism in FreeBSD.

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The IRR Landscape: What RPKI Can Replace

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Matthias Wichtlhuber

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In the third part of our IRR landscape series, we use traffic measurements from AMS-IX and DE-CIX to assess which parts of the IRR landscape can safely be replaced with RPKI. Third-party ROUTE(6) objects can largely be phased out, while third-party AS-SETs remain essential for BGP filter generation.

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DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure - Beyond Definitions and Blocklists

DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure: Beyond Definitions and Blocklists

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Andrew Campling

8 min read

Evidence suggests that criminals may control a substantial share of new gTLD registrations. Although the precise scale remains contested, the article asks whether current DNS Abuse measures adequately address wider misuse of domain names.

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Deploying IPv6-first EKS on AWS: What Still Doesn't Work, and What It Saves

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Spiro Stathakis

11 min read

In this field report on IPv6-first Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), the isp6 team shares which dependencies still drag IPv4 back in, what they learnt from /28s, and why the saving is large but not automatic.

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Multiple LIR Accounts: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead

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Marco Schmidt

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Why a feature introduced for a handful of members became one of the RIPE NCC's most complex operational challenges.

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Two Providers, a Stubborn Plateau and a Very Long Tail: Email in the Tranco Top-1M

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Artem Berezin

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Ten years of DNS measurements reveal three trends across the Internet's most popular domains: email continues to consolidate around two providers, DMARC enforcement has hit a plateau, and a surprisingly large long tail of infrastructure defies easy classification.

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