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Fragmenting IPv6

Fragmenting IPv6

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Geoff Huston

26 min read

The design of IPv6 represented a relatively conservative evolutionary step of the Internet protocol. Mostly, it's just IPv4 with significantly larger address fields. Mostly, but not completely, as there were some changes. IPv6 changed the boot process to use auto-configuration and multicast to perf…

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Pinpointing Delay and Forwarding Anomalies Using RIPE Atlas Built-in Measurements - Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Built-Ins

Pinpointing Delay and Forwarding Anomalies Using RIPE Atlas Built-in Measurements - Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Built-Ins

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Romain Fontugne

8 min read

Detecting network disruptions is a recurring problem. Clearly locating performance degradation is an important step in debugging and subsequently fixing connectivity issues.

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The Internet for Things

The Internet for Things

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Mirjam Kühne

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Please read this guest post by Byron Ellacott, Senior Software Architect at APNIC: The Internet of Things without the Internet is just things, and we’ve had things since the first caveman used a pointy stick to draw on a wall. What then does the Internet bring to things to justify a capital T?

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Using RIPE Atlas to Look at IXPs in Berlin

Using RIPE Atlas to Look at IXPs in Berlin

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Mirjam Kühne

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The IXP country jedi tool described in earlier RIPE Labs articles, can also be used to analyse the situation in a specific city. This time we look at Berlin.

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How Pingable are the Pingables?

How Pingable are the Pingables?

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Rene Wilhelm

15 min read

In February 2011 the RIPE NCC implemented the "pingable:" and "ping-hdl:" attributes in the RIPE Database. These attributes were added to the Routing Policy Specification Language by RFC 5943 to allow networks to advertise IP addresses that are reachable and can be used as a target for diagnostic…

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RIPE Atlas Update: DNSMON Code Available, LatencyMON Comparisons, New Credit Sharing and More

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Suzanne Taylor

4 min read

In the past few months, we've added some new features and functionality to RIPE Atlas, including making the DNSMON code available on GitHub for personal use, displaying IPv4 vs IPv6 comparisons in LatencyMON, new credit sharing options, and new limits on probes per measurement and results per day.…

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Support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in DNS Resolvers as Seen by RIPE Atlas

Support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in DNS Resolvers as Seen by RIPE Atlas

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Maciej Andzinski

6 min read

The Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is becoming increasingly popular in DNSSEC. While it is sometimes considered to be a remedy for the low DNSSEC adoption rate, there is also a lot of controversy around it. One of the main concerns is that DNSSEC-validating resolvers don't always make use of ECC…

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Taking a Closer Look at the Last /8

Taking a Closer Look at the Last /8

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Marco Schmidt

4 min read

We’ve updated our IPv4 graph to tell the whole story about our remaining address pool.

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10,000 LIRs with IPv6 Resources

10,000 LIRs with IPv6 Resources

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Nathalie Trenaman

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This week, the RIPE NCC saw a milestone as the 10,000th Local Internet Registry (LIR) received IPv6 addresses. The first block of IPv6 addresses was allocated from IANA to the RIPE NCC in 1999, so we have been distributing IPv6 addresses for 17 years. In those years we have seen interesting poli…

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