Network Operations

What is Anycast DNS and Why is It Important?

Robert Allen

• 27 Jun 2022

• 5 min read

Anycast DNS is used by the leading DNS providers to ensure DNS queries can always be answered as quickly as possible. But how does Anycast DNS actually work and why is it important for your domain?

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Security by Diversity: Designing Secure, Reliable and Robust Systems

Fredrik Lindeberg

• 21 Jun 2022

• 9 min read

A chain is not as strong as its weakest link, it can be much much stronger. In cybersecurity, the art of building secure systems from insecure but diverse components is an important but often neglected topic. Instead, processes, rigidity and structure are generally seen as the only way to attain se…

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RPKI Training for Ukrainian Network Operators

Alex Semenyaka

• 7 Jun 2022

• 3 min read

The RIPE NCC held online BGP Security training for Ukrainian telecom operators on 6 April. The training was delivered in English with translation into Ukrainian. In this article, we talk about the motivation for providing this particular kind of training and share the full recording.

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Yugoslavia and the Internet That Never Was

Jelena Cosic

• 2 Jun 2022

• 2 min read

At the SEE 10 meeting, a panel of Internet pioneers came together to share their experiences as some of the people responsible for the development of the Internet in Yugoslavia. In order to properly record this event, we bring you the full video of that session.

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An Introduction to IRR Explorer

Teun Vink

• 19 May 2022

• 9 min read

In this article we take a look at how IRR explorer can be used to analyse and improve routing, IRR registrations, and RPKI configurations by looking at a number of real world examples.

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The Curious Case of Packets From ::

Robert Kisteleki

• 16 May 2022

• 10 min read

RIPE Atlas has a large enough footprint all over the world to observe various kinds of network behaviour. Recently we've been notified about a case where the IPv6 source address ::/128 appeared in some of our traceroutes. We set out to discover why this happens.

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A Special RIPE NCC Country Report: IPv6 in Sweden

Suzanne Taylor

• 10 May 2022

• 3 min read

We investigate the state of IPv6 in Sweden in this special RIPE NCC Internet Country Report.

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Securing the RIPE NCC Trust Anchor

Ties de Kock

• 9 May 2022

• 10 min read

At the RIPE NCC, we recently migrated one of the Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) we use to handle keys in RPKI. In this article, we give a detailed overview of the role HSMs play in the broader RPKI system and talk through the steps we took to carry out the migration process.

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RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania

Suzanne Taylor

• 4 May 2022

• 4 min read

We take a comprehensive look at three different countries in southeastern Europe as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Internet Country Reports.

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The Global NOG Alliance: Keep Ukraine Connected

Alun Davies

• 27 Apr 2022

• 3 min read

The Global NOG Alliance is actively working to help keep the Ukrainian Internet connected. On 13 April, they delivered their first shipment of vital hardware into the country. I caught up with the team to talk about how the first delivery went, how this got started, and what's coming next.

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