Network Operations

Looking Back at the Internet’s Past Decade

Geoff Huston

• 25 Jun 2018

• 32 min read

In this article I am looking a some fundamental developments on the Internet over the last decade. Nothing much has changed - or has it?

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BGP Large Communities - Uptake by the Community at Large?

Emile Aben

• 20 Jun 2018

• 9 min read

In this article we look into the uptake of BGP Large Communities using the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS).

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Honeypot-based Monitoring of Amplification DDoS Attacks

Johannes Krupp

• 19 Jun 2018

• 5 min read

Amplification DDoS attacks are one of the most prevalent forms of denial-of-service attacks. The SISSDEN project (sissden.eu) operates a network of honeypots designed to detect these attacks, observing 10,000 per day.

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Measuring the Adoption of RPKI Route Origin Validation

Andreas Reuter

• 19 Jun 2018

• 10 min read

The number of Resource Certificates and ROAs is steadily growing, especially in the RIPE NCC service region. However, it remains unclear how widely BGP speakers on the Internet are actually using route origin validation (ROV) to drop or de-preference invalid announcements.

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Spam Over IPv6 - Eight Years Later

Ivo Dijkhuis

• 18 Jun 2018

• 3 min read

A long time ago we published an article on the amount of spam we receive over IPv6. Now, eight years later, we were curious to see if the spam landscape has changed.

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What Are My Options? Session Encryption Protocols Looking Forward

Kathleen Moriarty

• 14 Jun 2018

• 8 min read

This is the third and last piece in our mini series on network and security management. With TLSv1.3 approved and in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publication queue it’s time to think about deployment options and obstacles, and planning for changes inherent in this revision. Regardles…

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They Are Looking At WHAT? Service Provider Monitoring

Kathleen Moriarty

• 13 Jun 2018

• 5 min read

This is the second in a series of articles related to network and security management. This post digs deeper into the types of monitoring performed on internal and external networks to better understand considerations for your deployment plans.

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IPv6 Adoption Statistics: How do APNIC and Facebook Compare?

Rene Wilhelm

• 13 Jun 2018

• 4 min read

Both APNIC and Facebook publish statistics on IPv6 adoption per country. Next to the visualisations, these organisations also provide the numerical data. We take a look at these to see how the two methodologies compare.

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Network Monitoring is Dead… What Now? TLS, QUIC and Beyond

Kathleen Moriarty

• 12 Jun 2018

• 9 min read

This is the first in a series of articles related to network and security management and monitoring changes as the Internet moves toward session encryption protocols with forward secrecy that are more difficult to intercept.