Network Operations

IPv6 RIPEness Through the Years

Rene Wilhelm

• 13 Apr 2017

• 5 min read

In 2010, we introduced IPv6 RIPEness to recognise Local Internet Registries (LIRs) in the RIPE NCC service region that had begun deploying IPv6. Seven years later, we looked at how the IPv6 RIPEness level of the RIPE NCC membership evolved over time.

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Using RIPE Atlas to Measure Latency to Reunion Island

Réhan NOORDALLY

• 11 Apr 2017

• 8 min read

Internet connectivity is not fairly distributed around the world, in particular for islands or isolated areas. For instance, connectivity to and from the Reunion Island is mainly based on links to France located about 10,000 km away. This causes long delays and degraded Internet service. In this ar…

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Follow Up to IXP Tools Hackathon: Code Sprint

Vesna Manojlovic

• 10 Apr 2017

• 4 min read

As a part of the RIPE NCC's ongoing engagement with the Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) we have organised a code sprint. Researchers and IXP developers got together to continue work on the projects started during the IXP Tools hackathon, and achieved new, tangible results.

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Reverse DNS Outage for Out-of-Region Address Space

Anand Buddhdev

• 7 Apr 2017

• 4 min read

On Thursday 16 March 2017, at around 20:00 UTC, a bug in a script caused an outage for some reverse DNS delegations registered in the RIPE Database. The effects of the bug were not immediate, but began a cascading failure, that persisted until 18:00 UTC on Friday 17 March. In the following article,…

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IETF 98 Chicago: Is there a Role for the RIRs in IPAM?

George Michaelson

• 31 Mar 2017

• 3 min read

At the IETF 98 meeting in Chicago, there was a BoF session dedicated to IP address management tools and how they could possibly be standardised.

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IETF 98 Chicago: New Energy in the IPv6 Operations WG

George Michaelson

• 31 Mar 2017

• 2 min read

The IPv6 Operations Working Group (v6ops) met here in Chicago. It was a packed room with lots of great energy and many constructive conversations about work in progress.

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IETF 98 - Some Impressions - Monday

Mirjam Kühne

• 28 Mar 2017

• 3 min read

Here is a short summary of my Monday at IETF 98 in Chicago. Highlights were DNS operations and an effort to standardise address management systems.

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IETF 98 - Some Impressions - Day 0

Mirjam Kühne

• 27 Mar 2017

• 5 min read

I am at the IETF 98 in Chicago and I am planning to do a bit of blogging during the week, sharing highlights from my own very personal perspective.

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IPv6 Train the Trainer

Nathalie Trenaman

• 20 Mar 2017

• 4 min read

Did you ever attend one of our Basic or Advanced IPv6 Training courses? There's a good chance you did. In 2016, we organised 48 face-to-face IPv6 training courses, almost one every week. Every week, we receive requests for more IPv6 training courses in our region. The demand is high and the capacit…