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

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

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Uta Meier-Hahn

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

Trends in RIPE NCC Service Region IPv4 Transfers

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Rene Wilhelm

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?

BGP More Specifics: Routing Vandalism or Useful?

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Geoff Huston

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…

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

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Roland van Rijswijk-Deij

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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BGP Meets Cat

BGP Meets Cat

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Christian Teuschel

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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Recursives in the Wild: Engineering Authoritative DNS Servers

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Moritz Müller

5 min read

By analysing how resolvers select authoritative name servers in the wild we investigated how DNS operators are able to reduce DNS response times.

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Finding Open DNS Resolvers on IPv6

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Luuk Hendriks

9 min read

Open DNS resolvers that answer queries coming from anyone have been the main component of a large number of DDoS attacks in recent years.

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What Stops IPv6 Traffic in a Dual-stack ISP?

What Stops IPv6 Traffic in a Dual-stack ISP?

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Mirjam Kühne

9 min read

Please read this guest post by Enric Pujol, a network data analyst. Enric is looking at potential barriers that prevent ISPs to carry more traffic over IPv6.

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Research on DNS Root Server System

Research on DNS Root Server System

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Alun Davies

1 min read

APNIC and the RIPE NCC are about to conduct some joint research on the DNS root server system. Here's a quick heads up on our plans.

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12 Steps to Enable IPv6 in an ISP Network

12 Steps to Enable IPv6 in an ISP Network

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Jordi Palet Martinez

7 min read

This document is not intended to be a comprehensive and detailed technical digest of how to deploy IPv6 in an ISP network that currently has IPv4. Instead it is an executive summary of the 12 fundamental steps, not including services (DNS, web, email, etc.), for native IPv6 support and the maintena…

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