• 5 min read
The RIPE NCC and Juniper Networks co-hosted the first Deployathon on RPKI – a two-day event that brought together network professionals from 7 countries to work on practical aspects of routing security.
Based in Saarbrücken, Germany
Florian Streibelt is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, supervised by Anja Feldmann. In 2013 he graduated with a Diploma Degree in computer science from Technische Universität Berlin. During his undergrad time at TU Berlin he worked as a systems administrator and as … More
• 7 min read
This is the second of two articles in which we present a new attack vector on the routing infrastructure of the Internet using BGP communities.
Based in Saarbrücken, Germany
Florian Streibelt is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, supervised by Anja Feldmann. In 2013 he graduated with a Diploma Degree in computer science from Technische Universität Berlin. During his undergrad time at TU Berlin he worked as a systems administrator and as … More
• 9 min read
This is the first of two articles in which we present a new attack vector on the routing infrastructure of the Internet using BGP communities.
Based in Dubai, UAE
Hisham Ibrahim is the Chief Community Officer at the RIPE NCC. He leads the RIPE NCC's engagement efforts to foster a dynamic, inclusive RIPE community. He is responsible for engagement with RIPE NCC members, the RIPE community, Internet governance and training services. Hisham is active on several committees in various … More
• 6 min read
The Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG) Meeting & Peering Forum will be held on 3-4 April 2019 in Beirut, Lebanon. The Forum brings together key Internet players from all over the world, making this event the largest non-commercial, technical, educational and community-oriented activity in …
Based in Germany
Global IPv6 and IP services architect for IBM’s internal network. Driven IPv6 across IBM during the last 5 years, achieving significant progress. Also responsible for DNS, DHCP and IPAM services inside IBM globally. More
• 13 min read
How do you embrace IPv6 in a global enterprise, with tens of thousands of network devices, delivery teams all around the globe and no real shortage of IPv4 space? In this article, I will describe how we introduced IPv6 inside IBM’s own network over the past few years, and look at the challenges we …
Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job Snijders is an Internet Engineer at Fastly where he analyzes and architects global networks for future growth. Job has been actively involved in the Internet community in both operational, engineering, and architectural capacity, as a frequent presenter at network operator events such as NANOG, ITNOG, DKNOG, RIPE, NLNOG & … More
• 3 min read
On Sunday, 17 February 2019, 51 representatives from 37 organisations came together in Cloudflare's San Francisco offices for a roundtable discussion. The aim was to discuss operational aspects of RPKI deployment. RPKI technology is nowadays seen as the best way forward to secure the Internet's rou…
Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands
I am a senior software developer working on RIPE Atlas, DNSMON and other RIPE NCC projects. More
• 3 min read
We are launching a prototype called RIS Live, a feed that offers BGP messages in real time. It collects information from the RIS Route Collectors (RRCs) and uses a WebSocket JSON API to monitor and detect routing events around the world.
Based in Nootdorp
Bert is one of the founders of PowerDNS and to this day helps develop the PowerDNS software More
• 18 min read
At the recent FOSDEM 2019 meeting, there were three presentations about DNS over HTTPS. In the following post, I will attempt to give a neutral description of what I think we learned, and where we now are on DNS over HTTPS (DoH), with a focus on the European perspective. If you find a noticeable bi…
Policy Officer at RIPE NCC, supporting the Policy Development Process (PDP) for the implementation of accepted RIPE community policies. More
• 8 min read
This article explains our approach when a resource holder has an invalid abuse contact and does not respond to our automated emails.
Based in Prague
Ondřej Caletka graduated from the Czech Technical University and now works for CESNET, Czech National Research and Educational Network operator. He likes open source software, internet technologies and electronics. More
• 12 min read
Using zone files for managing the Domain Name System (DNS) zone data is the most basic and flexible way to manage the authoritative DNS data. In this post, we will describe how the Git version control system can be used to store zone file history and protect against errors.
