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Facebook Down and Out in BGPlay

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Alun Davies

4 min read

Following the Facebook outage that took place on 4 October, we saw people looking to BGPlay to get a better view of what went on. Here's a look at what the RIPEstat visualisation has to show us about the event in question.

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Celebrating 30 Years of Europe’s First Root Name Server

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Lars-Johan Liman

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The root name servers are a critical part of the Internet’s infrastructure. Identified by letters A through M, they provide the entry points to the Domain Name System (DNS). Since 2000, Netnod has operated i.root-servers.net, the first root server to be located outside of the United States.

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A Changing User Interface for rpki-validator.ripe.net

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On 1 July, we stopped maintenance of the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator, roughly a decade after launching it. For many years, we provided the community with a public RPKI Validator on https://rpki-validator.ripe.net/ that used the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator. Now it’s time to migrate this service to Routinato…

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The PeeringDB 2021 User Survey

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Leo Vegoda

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PeeringDB wants input from network operators, exchange operators, facility providers, content distributors and anyone who uses our interconnection database.

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Managing DNS Over IPv6 Only

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Paul de Weerd

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Outgrowing your IPv4 allocation is one of many very good reasons to get on with deploying IPv6. Here's a use case on the latest steps the RIPE NCC has been taking in the piecemeal process of deploying IPv6 across its services.

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IPv6 Support on the PlayStation 5

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Tore Anderson

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With the arrival of the next generation of gaming consoles, has progress been made toward better IPv6 capability?

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Prioritising a Zero Trust Journey Using CIS Controls v8

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Kathleen Moriarty

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The Center for Internet Security (CIS) recently published an updated version of the CIS Controls. CIS Controls v8 helps organisations break the zero trust journey down into achievable steps that are prioritised in a meaningful way.

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An Analysis of Responses to Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Public Consultation

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Andrew Campling

7 min read

While it remains to be seen what conclusions Mozilla will reach after public consultation into their Trusted Recursive Resolver policy, their initial reaction to the input received has led to positive change. That said, a closer look at responses to the consultation shows more work is needed before…

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Day One Exploits: How to Effectively Reduce the Threat

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Kathleen Moriarty

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Recent Day One attacks have demonstrated how difficult it can be for organisations to react when vulnerabilities are announced.

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Some Handy ROA Advice from Randy Bush

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George Michaelson

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Simple yet crucial ways to ensure your ROAs are functioning as they should.

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