Network Operations

Simplifying IPv6 Addressing for Customers - Part 1

Simplifying IPv6 Addressing for Customers - Part 2

Jordi Palet Martinez

• 11 Jul 2017

• 10 min read

One of the main issues when an ISP is planning to deliver IPv6 services is to decide how to address the customers. In this second part we describe choices for numbering the WAN and customer LANs.

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BGP Even-More Specifics in 2017

Stephen Strowes

• 10 Jul 2017

• 8 min read

Since October 2014, we have been advertising two IPv4 /25s and two IPv4 /28s, to better understand how far they propagate across the network. In this article, we review how things have (or have not) changed over the years.

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Simplifying IPv6 Addressing for Customers - Part 1

Jordi Palet Martinez

• 7 Jul 2017

• 8 min read

One of the main issues when an ISP is planning to deliver IPv6 services is to decide how to address the customers.

ipv6

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The Internet was Built on Trust. But What Does it Run On?

Uta Meier-Hahn

• 5 Jul 2017

• 12 min read

One of the most noble narratives about the Internet is that it is built on trust. This article sets out to check if that saying still holds true.

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Trends in RIPE NCC Service Region IPv4 Transfers

Rene Wilhelm

• 29 Jun 2017

• 12 min read

With only a few months left until the fifth anniversary of RIPE NCC reaching the last unallocated /8 of IPv4 space, we look at developments in transfers in, to and from the RIPE NCC service region.

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BGP More Specifics: Routing Vandalism or Useful?

Geoff Huston

• 27 Jun 2017

• 24 min read

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol that keeps the Internet glued together. The public Internet is composed of some 58,000 component networks (BGP calls them “Autonomous Systems” [AS’s]), many of which are very small, while some are very large both in terms of geographical cov…

routing

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A Virtual Canary-in-the-Coalmine for the DNSSEC Root Key Rollover

Roland van Rijswijk-Deij

• 27 Jun 2017

• 6 min read

As many in the tech community will know, the DNS is a core part of the Internet’s infrastructure. It provides the vital function of mapping human-readable names (such as www.surf.nl) to machine readable information (such as 2001:610:188:410:145:100:190:243). When the DNS was designed in the 1980s, …

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security

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BGP Meets Cat

Christian Teuschel

• 26 Jun 2017

• 4 min read

As controversial as the title sounds much attention was drawn last weekend to RIPEstat when Job Snijders (@JobSnijders) revealed his creation of a Nyan Cat painted by smartly managing the visibility of 175 /24 prefixes.

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