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IPv6-only at Microsoft

IPv6-only at Microsoft

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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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DNS Measurements Hackathon 2017

DNS Measurements Hackathon 2017

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Alun Davies

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The RIPE NCC's fifth hackathon event will happen in Amsterdam, in April 2017. We would like to invite operators, designers, researchers and developers to take on the challenge and join us in developing new tools and visualisations for DNS measurements.

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DNS Root Server Transparency: K-Root, Anycast and More

DNS Root Server Transparency: K-Root, Anycast and More

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Emile Aben

8 min read

The RIPE NCC is operating K-root, one of the 13 DNS root servers. In this article we shed some light on the operational policies of K-root to clarify possible misunderstandings about how it is operated.

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The BGP Large Communities Playground

The BGP Large Communities Playground

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Pier Carlo Chiodi

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This article describes the BGP Large Communities Playground, and encourages people to utilise automated regression testing and compliance checking when developing new protocol features.

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15,000 Local Internet Registries

15,000 Local Internet Registries

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Rene Wilhelm

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On 28 December 2016, about 90 days before its 25th anniversary, the RIPE NCC reached the milestone of serving 15,000 active Local Internet Registries (LIRs). In this article we look at trends observed in the membership in the last few years. We also assess the remaining lifetime of the last bit of…

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Studying the IPv4 Transfer Market: Reported Transfers

Studying the IPv4 Transfer Market: Reported Transfers

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Over the past five years, all Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), with the exception of AFRNIC, have exhausted their pool of available IPv4 addresses. The Internet community anticipated this almost two decades ago and standardised IPv6 as a long-term solution. IPv6 uptake is, however, still laggin…

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Build your own Anycast Network in Nine Steps

Build your own Anycast Network in Nine Steps

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Samir Jafferali

13 min read

Please read this guest post by Samir Jafferali from LinkedIn in which he explains which steps he followed when setting up an anycast network: from acquiring address space to setting up routing and announcing the prefix from multiple PoPs.

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Scoring the DNS Root Server System, Part 2 – A Sixth Star?

Scoring the DNS Root Server System, Part 2 – A Sixth Star?

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Geoff Huston

19 min read

I am taking a second look at the DNS root servers, this time focusing on the ability to handle large UDP responses over IPv6.

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Scoring the DNS Root Server System

Scoring the DNS Root Server System

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Geoff Huston

23 min read

The process of rolling the DNS Root’s Key Signing Key of the DNS has now started. During this process, there will be a period where the root zone servers’ response to a DNS query for the DNSKEY resource record of the root zone will grow from the current value of 864 octets to 1,425 octets. Does thi…

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Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

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Emile Aben

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We had a look at various RIPE NCC data sets to see what we can learn from yet another country-wide Internet outage in 2016.

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