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The Role of Service Providers in Transforming Security

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Kathleen Moriarty

8 min read

With various types of attacks utilising managed service providers to gain access to multiple targets, it's important to ask how those service providers can help improve security for enterprise environments. Although taking measures in this area requires a lot of effort, the recent increase in attac…

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Hands-On Learning: How We Built the IPv6 Security Course Virtual Lab Activities

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Ondřej Caletka

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Recently, we launched a new e-learning course on IPv6 security in the RIPE NCC Academy. This course helps you learn about the theoretical concepts behind IPv6 security, and you will also have a chance to practice some attacks and protection against them on your own computer. In this post, I will de…

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Hosted DNS Application Update

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Expanding the RIPE NCC Authoritative DNS Service means cooperating with the community to find organisations out there willing to host AuthDNS instances on their networks. In this article, find out exactly what's required from hosts and how to apply.

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Hunting Routing Resources with IRRHound

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Francesco Ferreri

5 min read

Choosing the right IRR source list for each IXP participant is becoming a challenging task. But help is at hand! IRRHound assists in tracking routing resources across multiple IRR sources.

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Securing Critical Infrastructure: New Regulations Mandate Control

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Sebastiaan Bosman

4 min read

Organisations responsible for critical infrastructure often also take care of their own cybersecurity. Now though, with the European Commission having proposed a new directive to enhance the resilience of critical entities, such organisations need to start preparing for change.

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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

3 min read

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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