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How we will be Following up with Invalid Abuse Contacts

Abuse-c Validation: Update on Progress and Some Numbers

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Angela Dall'Ara

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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

Your EU Regulation Update: May 2019 Edition

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Suzanne Taylor

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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

Making the DNS More Private with QNAME Minimisation

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Wouter de Vries

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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?

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

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Emile Aben

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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

BGP Zombies

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Romain Fontugne

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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

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Stephen Strowes

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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

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Gergana Petrova

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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 …

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BGP Large Communities Uptake - An Update

BGP Large Communities Uptake - An Update

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Emile Aben

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We were asked by the community to look at the uptake of BGP Large Communities as observed by our Routing Information Service (RIS).

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Results of the First RPKI Deployathon

Results of the First RPKI Deployathon

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Adonis Stergiopoulos

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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.

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BGP Communities - A Weapon for the Internet (Part 2)

BGP Communities - A Weapon for the Internet (Part 2)

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Florian Streibelt

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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.

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