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Managing the Trust Anchor of the DNS against Adversity

Managing the Trust Anchor of the DNS against Adversity

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Mirjam Kühne

7 min read

Kim Davies, President of PTI and Vice President of IANA Services for ICANN describes recent and new challenges when managing the DNS trust anchor.

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IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics

IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics

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Rene Wilhelm

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Following up on earlier research, we're looking at IPv6 adoption statistics provided by various organisations once again. How far do they match, and if not, why not?

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NXNSAttack: Upgrade Resolvers to Stop New Kind of Random Subdomain Attack

NXNSAttack: Upgrade Resolvers to Stop New Kind of Random Subdomain Attack

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This article describes a newly discovered DNS protocol vulnerability that affects most recursive DNS resolvers. NXNSAttack allows the execution of random subdomain attacks using the DNS delegation mechanism, resulting in a big packet amplification factor.

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The BGP Tuner: Intuitive Anycast Management

The BGP Tuner: Intuitive Anycast Management

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Joao M. Ceron

5 min read

DNS operators have very few intelligent real-time tools that enable them to monitor their anycast services, for instance during a DDoS attack. In this post, we describe the challenges associated with measuring anycast services and propose a tool called the BGP Tuner. By using our open-source tool, …

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Your EU Regulation Update: May 2020 Edition

Your EU Regulation Update: May 2020 Edition

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Suzanne Taylor

11 min read

This is the fourth in an ongoing series in which we give a brief overview of the most pertinent digital policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union.

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RPKI: Past, Present and Future

RPKI: Past, Present and Future

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Felipe Victolla Silveira

8 min read

With RPKI experiencing a huge growth in its deployment and becoming a key part in the operations of the Internet, we have been investing a significant amount of resources in making its infrastructure resilient, secure, and highly available. Recent outages have raised concerns about the maturity lev…

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The 1M Day Isn't That Far Away

The 1M Day Isn't That Far Away

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Berislav Todorovic

4 min read

In less than two years from now, the number of IPv4 prefixes in the global BGP routing table will hit the one million figure. Should you be worried? Most probably not, but better safe than sorry.

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Lessons Learned on Improving RPKI

Lessons Learned on Improving RPKI

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Nathalie Trenaman

8 min read

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” (Bill Gates)

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Blind Trust

Blind Trust

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Mirjam Kühne

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"For well over a decade I have been concerned about the blind trust that exists in the technical world." Merike Kaeo, a global expert in information security, explains why and what we should do about it.

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DNS is Virtually Awesome

DNS is Virtually Awesome

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Shane Kerr

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The RIPE DNS working group will be holding online sessions every few weeks. We have already had the first session, a talk from Kim Davies at PTI/ICANN about some of the challenges of DNSSEC KSK management for the root zone. This session went very well, and we are looking forward to many more in the…

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