Network Operations

Bang for the Buck: the Adoption of DNSSEC and Return on Investment

Rene Bakker

• 3 Apr 2018

• 11 min read

The current perspective on cyber security is still dominated by the technical nature of many security issues. Within the technical community there is consensus about the necessity of providing a secure DNS, guaranteeing integrity and authentication of the presented domain name. Although there are c…

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Making IXFR Small Again

Matthijs Mekking

• 28 Mar 2018

• 4 min read

At the recent IETF 101 hackathon, we worked on a project to reduce the size of incremental zone transfers (IXFRs) with some very interesting results.

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IETF 101 Liveblog

Gergana Petrova

• 21 Mar 2018

• 40 min read

The 101st meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) runs from 17 - 23 March 2018 in London. RIPE NCC staff at the event will be live blogging key moments. See this page for regular updates on the issues, arguments and ideas discussed over the course of the meeting.

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The Avans Academy - Top of the Class in IPv6 Usage in the Netherlands

Nathalie Trenaman

• 2 Feb 2018

• 8 min read

Together with SURFnet we met with Harold van Ham and David Schrok, both active in the IPv6 team at the University of Applied Sciences in Breda and talked to them about the steps they took to deploy IPv6 in their network.

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RIPE NCC Members and Resources in 2017

Rene Wilhelm

• 2 Feb 2018

• 10 min read

In this article we're looking at membership developments over the previous year. How many new LIRs opened, and is this consistent with our earlier projections? How much longer will IPv4 last? And what about IPv6 uptake?

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The Peculiar Case of NSEC Processing Using Expanded Wildcard Records

Ralph Dolmans

• 30 Jan 2018

• 14 min read

Last week we released a new version of Unbound with a fix for CVE-2017–15105. Unbound, Google public DNS, PowerDNS and Dnsmasq contained a flaw that made it possible to downgrade secure connections.

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A Shrinking Pie? The IPv4 Transfer Market in 2017

Rene Wilhelm

• 30 Jan 2018

• 6 min read

A record number of IPv4 addresses were transferred between LIRs in the RIPE NCC service region in 2017. However, 16 of the largest transfers, amounting to 78% of the total transferred address space, were really about the administrative management of resources between related business units. In term…

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Measurements as the Key to Transparency

Alexander Azimov

• 25 Jan 2018

• 6 min read

We built a tool to visualise network latency measured with RIPE Atlas.

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Bringing DNS Security and Privacy to the End User

Benno Overeinder

• 24 Jan 2018

• 9 min read

The DNS is at the core of most interactions on the Internet. Therefore it is essential to ensure proper authentication and encryption of DNS data. There are number of initiatives that can help users in this context.

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Traceroute Haikus

Ben Cartwright-Cox

• 15 Jan 2018

• 6 min read

Traceroutes are a common network debugging diagnostic tool. They (should) list every router that your packet travels through to get to its final destination. Here is what it looks like from my flat to my website:

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