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A Quick Look at the Attack on Dyn

A Quick Look at the Attack on Dyn

Massimo Candela

6 min read

We used a number of RIPE NCC tools and data sets to take a quick look at the recent DDoS attack on Dyn’s infrastructure. We wanted to see if this could be found in the data produced by the RIPE Atlas community.

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IPv6 and the DNS

IPv6 and the DNS

Geoff Huston

19 min read

The exhortations about the Internet’s prolonged transition to version 6 of the Internet Protocol continue, although after some two decades the intensity of the rhetoric has faded and, possibly surprisingly, it has been replaced by action in some notable parts of the Internet. But how do we know the…

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Orange Blacklisting: A Case for Measuring Censorship

Orange Blacklisting: A Case for Measuring Censorship

Stéphane Bortzmeyer

2 min read

On 17 October 2016, a website hosted by the French Ministry of the Interior went offline when a large number of customers of the Internet service provider, Orange, were redirected to the site. The problem occurred after Google, Wikipedia and cloud provider OVH were mistakenly placed on a terrorism …

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Defending the Olympics from DDoS

Defending the Olympics from DDoS

Mirjam Kühne

7 min read

Please read this guest post by Tony Scheid about fighting Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Supporting IPv6 Deployment Through Policy

Supporting IPv6 Deployment Through Policy

Marco Schmidt

4 min read

It was about one year ago that the RIPE community reached consensus on a policy proposal that introduced additional criteria for initial IPv6 allocations. We thought it was time to look back at the origins of this proposal and see how the change has worked out since.

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DNSSEC and ECDSA

DNSSEC and ECDSA

Geoff Huston

22 min read

Is the elliptical curve cryptographic algorithm (ECDSA) a viable crypto algorithm for use in DNSSEC today? And what has changed over the last two years?

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All Quiet in the IPv4 Internet?

All Quiet in the IPv4 Internet?

Philipp Richter

10 min read

In 2016, IPv4 exhaustion is on everyone’s lips: four out of five Regional Internet Registries have run out of freely available address space.

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What Do Network Operators Sell to Each Other?

What Do Network Operators Sell to Each Other?

Uta Meier-Hahn

12 min read

Comparisons rarely work. They never fit properly; they almost always lead away from the topic. And the audience‘s attention is lost in unimportant details. Therefore, writers do themselves few favours when they use comparisons as stylistic tools. I once read that in a book about speech writing (Fra…

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Announcing the IXP Tools Hackathon

Announcing the IXP Tools Hackathon

Suzanne Taylor

7 min read

The RIPE NCC is hosting a hackathon focused on developing tools for Internet Exchange Points. Come participate!

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IPv4-only RIPE Atlas Anchors Now Supported

IPv4-only RIPE Atlas Anchors Now Supported

Suzanne Taylor

2 min read

Until now, native IPv4 and IPv6 has been one of the conditions of hosting a RIPE Atlas anchor. However, we realise that IPv6 simply isn't available in some would-be anchor hosts' ASNs. As a result, we've decided to support IPv4-only anchors.

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