Network Operations

We’re Running out of IPv6 (And That’s a Good Thing!)

Riccardo Stagni

• 6 Jun 2019

• 8 min read

You read that right. The RIPE NCC is running out of IPv6... Luckily, we've also received our second /12 IPv6 allocation – becoming the first Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to do so! Let’s take a look back at how we’ve distributed our first /12 allocation.

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RPKI Test

Nathalie Trenaman

• 22 May 2019

• 2 min read

How can you quickly figure out if a network you are using is dropping invalid Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) BGP announcements? You can do so by opening up a browser and visiting our RPKI test web page.

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Abuse-c Validation: Update on Progress and Some Numbers

Angela Dall'Ara

• 15 May 2019

• 6 min read

With RIPE 78 around the corner, we want to update you on our work to validate abuse contacts in the RIPE Database.

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Your EU Regulation Update: May 2019 Edition

Suzanne Taylor

• 13 May 2019

• 8 min read

In recent years, there’s been a trend towards increased EU regulation with the potential to impact more actors across the Internet landscape. This is the second in an ongoing series in which we give a brief overview of the most pertinent policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in…

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Making the DNS More Private with QNAME Minimisation

Wouter de Vries

• 26 Apr 2019

• 10 min read

DNS queries can contain a lot of sensitive information about Internet users. Query name minimisation (qmin) limits the information revealed to what is actually necessary for a DNS name server to answer the query. We did an initial study of qmin deployment and the associated challenges and published…

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768k Day. Will it Happen? Did it Happen?

Emile Aben

• 25 Apr 2019

• 3 min read

Will there be a 768k day similar to the 512k day we saw a few years ago? See here what we can see in the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS).

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BGP Zombies

Romain Fontugne

• 23 Apr 2019

• 8 min read

When withdrawing an IP prefix from the Internet, an origin network sends BGP withdraw messages, which are expected to propagate to all BGP routers that hold an entry for that IP prefix in their routing table. Yet network operators occasionally report issues where routers maintain routes to IP prefi…

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Visibility of IPv4 and IPv6 Prefix Lengths in 2019

Stephen Strowes

• 11 Apr 2019

• 13 min read

In August 2011, we wrote about IPv4 and IPv6 prefix lengths visible in BGP. It's time for an update!

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South East Europe - A Closer Look from the RIPE NCC

Gergana Petrova

• 3 Apr 2019

• 9 min read

The eighth edition of the RIPE NCC's South East Europe Regional Meeting (SEE 8) is just around the corner. What do we know about these countries in terms of membership growth, IPv4 transfer, IPv6 deployment and other statistics? Whether you're a SEE local and would like to get an update or whether …