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Distinguishing the Internet’s Core From What Is Built on Top

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Hisham Ibrahim

5 min read

The Internet is not social media, nor the web, nor your favourite app. In fact, it’s not even the digital economy or the communication tools we’ve all come to rely on. The Internet is something deeper, a foundational network of networks that has quietly powered the digital age for over 40 years.

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The DNS Server That Lagged Behind

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer

3 min read

Around the end of October and beginning of November 2024, twenty six African TLDs had a technical problem - one of their authoritative name servers served stale data. This is a tale of monitoring, anycast, and debugging.

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War Story: RPKI is Working as Intended

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Job Snijders

8 min read

Three weeks ago, Fastly was the target of a BGP hijack similar to a far more widely-reported incident that happened back in 2008. But this time, barely anyone noticed. Why is that?

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Join the DNS Hackathon 2025

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Vesna Manojlovic

7 min read

Netnod, DNS-OARC and the RIPE NCC invite you to join us for our second joint DNS Hackathon in Stockholm. The event takes place from 15 - 16 March 2025, the weekend before NETNOD meeting.

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Serial BGP Hijackers: A Reproducibility Study and Assessment of Current Dynamics

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Ebrima Jaw

9 min read

Serial hijackers are malicious actors that repeatedly carry out prefix hijacks on various networks, some lasting for months or years. A new study assesses the evolution of serial hijacking events since 2019 and determines what actions the technical community is taking to protect the Internet agains…

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The Internet Exchange Point: A Window Onto a Changing Internet

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Flavio Luciani

6 min read

IXPs are the airports of the Internet, busy hubs connecting traffic from a multitude of networks. The Namex observatory provides a unique view of the health and stability of the Internet as it continues to grow and evolve.

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How to Get IP Addresses for Your Network

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Anastasiya Pak

5 min read

Our new report provides network operators and businesses with an overview of the various options available for acquiring IP addresses today.

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CAPIF 3 Report: Strengthening Peering and Internet Growth in Central Asia

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Anastasiya Pak

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The Central Asian Internet community met on 24-25 September at CAPIF 3 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to discuss peering, interconnectivity, Internet traffic exchange, IPv6 adoption, and challenges for digital transformation. The event brought together over 200 people from 18 countries - proving the need …

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Tim Bruijnzeels: Patching Internet Vulnerabilities with RPKI

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Alun Davies

3 min read

The White House recently announced plans to boost Internet routing security in the US through improved RPKI coverage. So how does RPKI help secure BGP? How easy is it to boost coverage on a national level? And what's the future potential of the infrastructure? Our guest Tim Bruijnzeels shares his v…

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The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms

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Thomas Holterbach

12 min read

Existing BGP data collection platforms face challenges that threaten their long-term sustainability: their data comes with enormous redundancy and significant visibility gaps. We explore a new BGP data collection paradigm, already implemented in a prototype called GILL, that could stir change for o…

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