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New RIPE Atlas Root Zone DNS Measurements

New RIPE Atlas Root Zone DNS Measurements

Chris Amin

2 min read

Two new DNS measurements, both designed to assess the impact of issues with one or more root name servers, have been added to every RIPE Atlas probe.

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Uncertainty is Key

Uncertainty is Key

Uta Meier-Hahn

8 min read

In order to manufacture Internet connectivity, network operators around the globe make a joint effort. As of today, they have interconnected more than 55,000 Autonomous Systems. By the measure of existence, the Internet gives evidence of a remarkable degree of decentral coordination between network…

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Commercial Incentives of IPv6 Deployment

Commercial Incentives of IPv6 Deployment

Mirjam Kühne

13 min read

This article is based on the IPv6 Best Practices document published for the Internet Governance Forum 2016 by Izumi Okutani, Sumon A. Sabir and Wim Degezelle.

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Bugfixing IPv6 Deployment Statistics

Bugfixing IPv6 Deployment Statistics

Emile Aben

4 min read

We found a bug in a dataset that we've been producing for years.

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IPv6 RIPEness in 2017

IPv6 RIPEness in 2017

Rene Wilhelm

8 min read

This post provides an update on our IPv6 RIPEness project, including an analysis of IPv6 RIPEness for new Local Internet Registries (LIRs).

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Time to Decide on Internet of Things Liability

Time to Decide on Internet of Things Liability

Eireann Leverett

5 min read

We are at a very important decision point in Internet history. Will we accept insecure and unsafe Internet of Things (IoT) devices that erode our privacy and open our home networks to intrusion from hackers? Or will we hold vendors accountable for their security and privacy decisions in the product…

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Addressing in 2016

Addressing in 2016

Geoff Huston

60 min read

Time for another annual roundup from the world of IP addresses. Let’s see what has changed in the past 12 months in addressing the Internet, and look at how IP address allocation information can inform us of the changing nature of the network itself.

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Using RIPE Atlas to Validate International Routing Detours

Using RIPE Atlas to Validate International Routing Detours

Anant Shah

12 min read

International routing detours are paths that originate in one country, visit another country and return to the original country. Such circuitous routes could occur due to intentional traffic engineering, lack of local peering, BGP misconfigurations, or even attacks. Detecting such events helps n…

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BGP in 2016

BGP in 2016

Geoff Huston

34 min read

It has become either a tradition or a habit for me that, each January, I report on the experience with the inter-domain routing system over the past year; looking in some detail at metrics from the routing system that can show the essential shape and behaviour of the underlying interconnection fabr…

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IPv6-only at Microsoft

IPv6-only at Microsoft

Mirjam Kühne

5 min read

Please read this guest post by Marcus Keane from Microsoft in which he describes why the organisation is moving to IPv6-only and away from dual-stack.

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