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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

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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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Save the Date: RIPE NCC Hackathon Version 6

Save the Date: RIPE NCC Hackathon Version 6

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Vesna Manojlovic

5 min read

How appropriate - the topic of our upcoming sixth hackathon is IPv6! The event will happen on 4 and 5 November 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Applications will open later in the summer - for now, please mark your calendars if you are interested, and start thinking about possible projects.

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6th Anniversary of the World IPv6 Day

6th Anniversary of the World IPv6 Day

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Nathalie Trenaman

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Time flies, especially when you are having fun. This week, we are celebrating the 6th anniversary of the World IPv6 Day in 2011, which was held on the 8th of June.

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Investigating the Status of Reverse DNS

Investigating the Status of Reverse DNS

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Sofía Silva Berenguer

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On 20 and 21 April 2017, the RIPE NCC organised a DNS Measurements Hackathon in Amsterdam. I thought I would be the only one curious about reverse DNS delegations, so, to avoid being disappointed, I convinced myself that the best I could expect was to work on something I could recycle later and use…

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Anycast Latency: How Many Sites are Enough?

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JH Kuipers

4 min read

IP anycast is a popular way to scale up and distribute services across the Internet, with the aim of getting closer to end users. Using anycast, the IP address of a service is available in multiple places on the Internet — so-called anycast instances or sites — and Internet routing defines which in…

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BGP Table Fragmentation: What & Who?

BGP Table Fragmentation: What & Who?

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Julien Gamba

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BGP routing table growth is one of the major Internet scaling issues, and prefix deaggregation is thought to be a major contributor to table growth. In this work we quantify the fragmentation of the routing table by the type of IP prefix. We observe that the proportion of deaggregated prefixes has …

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Do You Have DNSSEC Validation Enabled?

Do You Have DNSSEC Validation Enabled?

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Mirjam Kühne

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Please read this guest post by Matt Larson, Vice President of Research in the Office of the CTO at ICANN: In July 2010, the Domain Name System root zone was signed with DNSSEC.

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IPv6 Support for Governments Programme

IPv6 Support for Governments Programme

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Arne Kießling

4 min read

We have developed a new programme to help governments with their IPv6 allocation requests. This article explains the kind of support on offer and why we think it’s needed.

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