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The Best Laid Plans…

The Best Laid Plans…

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João Luis Silva Damas

3 min read

For just over 10 years now, every three months, a diverse group of “Trusted Community Representatives” [1] get together in one of two data centres in the USA and follow an agreed script to sign a batch of Key Signing Requests (KSRs) provided by Verisign that, once returned with the proper signature…

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Reporting back from 36c3: Resource Exhaustion

Reporting back from 36c3: Resource Exhaustion

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Vesna Manojlovic

11 min read

Watching the videos from the Chaos Communication Club (CCC) is both an entertaining and educational activity. Our 2020 focus on sustainability has inspired me to share my favourite moments that seem most relevant to the RIPE Community and RIPE Labs audiences.

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What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses?

What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses?

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Philip Homburg

8 min read

...or, how RIPE Atlas measurement data just got a little bit more complex. Some people say IPv6 is "96 more bits, no magic". And while this is true for most network operators, if you're a RIPE Atlas system programmer, you can run into interesting situations. In this article, we described how link-l…

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Detecting and Taking Down Fraudulent Webshops at the .nl ccTLD

Detecting and Taking Down Fraudulent Webshops at the .nl ccTLD

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Giovane Moura

10 min read

In this article, we describe how we detected a large number of fraudulent sites using tools developed by SIDN Labs.

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The Debogonisation of 2a10::/12

The Debogonisation of 2a10::/12

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Emile Aben

11 min read

We are getting ready to start allocating from 2a10::/12, a new block of IPv6 addresses. In this process we did a couple of 'pre-flight' checks to check the usability of address space in this /12 block.

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Down the Black Hole: Dismantling Operational Practices of BGP Blackholing at IXPs

Down the Black Hole: Dismantling Operational Practices of BGP Blackholing at IXPs

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Marcin Nawrocki

8 min read

Large Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks pose a major threat not only to end systems but also to the Internet infrastructure as a whole. Remote Triggered Black Hole filtering (RTBH) has been established as a tool to mitigate inter-domain DDoS attacks. The idea is simple: Signal special BG…

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How to Build and Market IPv6-only Services

How to Build and Market IPv6-only Services

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Nico Schottelius

4 min read

Today I want to tell you a real-world story about how we build and market IPv6-only services at ungleich. In 2013, I founded ungleich to offer Linux consultancy. Being a startup, we did not have a lot of infrastructures ourselves. Whenever customers asked us to provide hosting for them, we referre…

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Celebrating 10,000 RPKI Certificates!

Celebrating 10,000 RPKI Certificates!

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Nathalie Trenaman

3 min read

We're celebrating reaching 10,000 generated Certificate Authorities. This is a big milestone for RPKI and proof that more operators are seeing the need for routing security.

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Better Mail Security with DANE for SMTP

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Dennis Baaten

9 min read

In this post we will discuss the risks associated with SMTP and how DANE helps to overcome these, as well as provide you with a list of tips that we at Internet.nl suggest to those looking after mail servers when implementing DANE.

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RIPE NCC Country Report: Germany

RIPE NCC Country Report: Germany

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Suzanne Taylor

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We took an in-depth look at the evolving Internet landscape in Germany as the next in our new series of RIPE NCC Country Reports.

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