Network Operations

What Drives IPv6 Deployment?

Geoff Huston

• 23 May 2018

• 37 min read

It’s been almost seven years since World IPv6 Launch day on 6 June 2011 (*). In those seven years, we’ve managed to place ever-increasing pressure on the dwindling pools of available IPv4 addresses, but we have still been unable to complete the transition to an all-IPv6 Internet.

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Conditional Router Advertisements in Enterprise Multihoming

Jen Linkova

• 18 May 2018

• 10 min read

It’s 2018. IPv6 has been around for 20+ years (*) and global adoption is above 20% (**). Among those who have not yet deployed the modern version of the IP protocol, one particular category stands out: enterprise networks.

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Out-of-Region ROUTE(6) and AUT-NUM Objects in the RIPE Database

Denis Walker

• 9 May 2018

• 9 min read

There are changes being made to the way out-of-region objects are managed and represented in the RIPE Database. The following information is important to all database users.

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Report from RIPE NCC::Educa Event on Routing Security

Alvaro Vives

• 8 May 2018

• 6 min read

After the success of the first RIPE NCC::Educa, we promised we'd arrange a second, one-day, online learning event aimed at training anyone who wished to be trained in a topic of paramount importance to the Internet community. And so we did!

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Introducing 'tdns': the Teachable Authoritative DNS Server

bert hubert

• 20 Apr 2018

• 9 min read

tdns is part of the 'hello-dns' effort to provide a good entry point into DNS. tdns is small enough to read in one sitting and shows how DNS packets are parsed and generated.

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So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations

Rene Wilhelm

• 18 Apr 2018

• 12 min read

On 17 April 2018, we allocated the last available block of 1,024 addresses in 185/8 - the last /8 we received from IANA back in 2011. This article looks at how this address space was allocated and how it is used today. It's important to keep in mind that while 185/8 is finished, we still have aroun…

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Securing DNS Across all of my Devices with Pi-Hole + DNS-over-HTTPS + 1.1.1.1

Scott Helme

• 17 Apr 2018

• 10 min read

DNS is the protocol that makes the web work. It's how we convert easy to remember names like facebook.com into hard to remember IP addresses like 157.240.1.35 and others. Without it, the web wouldn't work but DNS has a problem, it's not secure.

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Fixing Reachability to 1.1.1.1, GLOBALLY!

Marty Strong

• 17 Apr 2018

• 11 min read

Find out how we used RIPE Atlas to test and fix reachability to 1.1.1.1

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Does The Internet Route Around Damage in 2018?

Emile Aben

• 11 Apr 2018

• 6 min read

On the night of 9 April 2018, DE-CIX Frankfurt experienced an outage. As this is one of the largest Internet Exchange Points, this is an interesting case to study in more depth to see what we can learn about Internet robustness. We plan to update this article if new information/corrections flow in.