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Update on K-root Expansion

Update on K-root Expansion

Romeo Zwart

6 min read

In April this year we announced that K-root would open up for expansion to new locations. Since then we have added 17 additional K-root hosted nodes. Now is a good point in the expansion of K-root for us to provide a short update.

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DNSSEC Algorithm Roll-over

DNSSEC Algorithm Roll-over

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Rolling over the algorithm (usually to a stronger variant) used to sign a DNS zone isn't as easy as regular key roll-overs. This is because some DNSSEC validators are less forgiving than others, and fail validation unless the right combination of keys and signatures is present in a zone. This ar…

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RIPE NCC Membership Statistics Q3 2015

RIPE NCC Membership Statistics Q3 2015

Rene Wilhelm

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We look at the RIPE NCC in terms of growth, geographic distribution and IPv6 deployment. We find that recent RIPE policy changes have had an impact on membership statistics and development trends.

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Researching F-root Anycast Placement Using RIPE Atlas

Researching F-root Anycast Placement Using RIPE Atlas

Ray Bellis

5 min read

In order to expand the reach of F-root, one of the 13 root servers, we at ISC looked at where queries to our F-root servers are coming from and where it would make most sense to place new nodes. As a first step, we looked at the existing nodes to see how they behave and if there is anything we can …

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Updates to the RIPE NCC Routing Information Service

Updates to the RIPE NCC Routing Information Service

Colin Petrie

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We've made some extensive improvements to the RIPE NCC Routing Information Service (RIS) which is an integral part of RIPEstat and heavily used by researchers and network operators. More changes will come and we need your feedback! Please note the questions at the end of this article.

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IPv4 in the RIPE NCC Service Region - Three Years After Reaching the Last /8

IPv4 in the RIPE NCC Service Region - Three Years After Reaching the Last /8

Rene Wilhelm

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In September 2012 the RIPE NCC reached its last /8 of available IPv4 addresses. This activated a new phase in the RIPE IPv4 policies, with each LIR now eligible to receive one final /22 allocation. In this article we look at developments in IPv4 allocations and remaining addresses at the RIPE NCC i…

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Real-time BGP Monitoring with Isolario and BGPlay

Real-time BGP Monitoring with Isolario and BGPlay

Alessandro Improta

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The Isolario project introduces a new concept of Route Collectors to devise real-time services and attract new BGP data sources. Thanks to the integration of BGPlay, the project provides new interesting troubleshooting tools to monitor BGP routes in real-time.

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A Tale of BGP Collectors and Customer Cones

A Tale of BGP Collectors and Customer Cones

Emile Aben

11 min read

When operators and researchers use data from BGP route collectors such as RIS and Route Views, it's not easy to tell if a path announced to a collector is an ISP's customer cone, an internal route, or one learned from peering or transit. In this post we look at what information we can currently get…

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Iran and K-root: The Rest of the Story

Iran and K-root: The Rest of the Story

Emile Aben

11 min read

Dyn Research published an article on K-root recently. Here we would like to augment the picture with data from RIPE Atlas in order to provide a more complete picture of the effect of the K-root node in Iran.

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Real-time BGP Visualisation with BGPlay

Real-time BGP Visualisation with BGPlay

Massimo Candela

6 min read

Please read about this new milestone release of the popular BGPlay web application. It can now receive BGP messages using WebSocket and update the visualisation on the fly.

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