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Visualisation of a New Node in LACTLD Anycast Service

Visualisation of a New Node in LACTLD Anycast Service

Hugo Salgado

6 min read

Despite the few RIPE Atlas probes available in Latin America, it is possible to obtain interesting measurements about changes in network architecture.

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Improving RIPE Atlas Coverage - Which Networks Are Missing?

Improving RIPE Atlas Coverage - Which Networks Are Missing?

Emile Aben

11 min read

In this article we compare RIPE Atlas deployment against user population estimates provided by APNIC to see which eyeball networks are missing out on RIPE Atlas probes.

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Enabling Data Compression in RIPE Atlas

Enabling Data Compression in RIPE Atlas

Daniel Quinn

3 min read

We’d like to enable gzip compression on all of RIPE Atlas' measurement API calls — but thanks to the BREACH vulnerability, doing so could mean that some enterprising individual with an obscene amount of time on their hands might be able read the contents of the responses. This means measurement res…

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Will the SIDR Model Succeed where the IRR Model Failed?

Will the SIDR Model Succeed where the IRR Model Failed?

15 min read

In this post (originally published on the APNIC blog), Cengiz Alaettinoglou gives a brief overview and comparison of the IRR and SIDR security models and shares his thoughts about the chances for these models to succeed.

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The DNS Root Zone Key-Signing Key is Changing

The DNS Root Zone Key-Signing Key is Changing

Mirjam Kühne

5 min read

Tony Smith from the APNIC gives an update on the DNS Root Zone Key-Signing and explains how the key-signing-key roll over will be done for the first time.

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DNSSEC Meets End-of-life DLV: Turning off is Hard

DNSSEC Meets End-of-life DLV: Turning off is Hard

George Michaelson

4 min read

The Domain Name Service Look-aside Validation Service (DLV) was an idea which was useful in the transition from a non-signed DNSSEC root to the current globally visible DNSSEC trust anchor. Now a significant number of people in the wider Internet may be running (particularly) Linux distributions th…

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Usage of Teredo and IPv6 for P2P on Windows 10 and Xbox One

Usage of Teredo and IPv6 for P2P on Windows 10 and Xbox One

Mirjam Kühne

4 min read

Please find below a guest post by Darrin Veit and Christopher Palmer who originally posted this to the NANOG mailing list. It provides information for Xbox One, but also shares some relevant details on upcoming Windows functionality in terms of Teredo and IPv6 usage.

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BGPdump2: A Tool to Read and Compare the BGP RIB Dump Files

BGPdump2: A Tool to Read and Compare the BGP RIB Dump Files

Yasuhiro Ohara

9 min read

We introduce a new tool to read BGP RIB dump files, called BGPdump2. It has a unique feature, in which users can compare routes from BGP RIB files in the ”diff”-like display format. It is good for checking the correctness of BGP operation by comparing one ISP’s BGP routing table to another ISP’s.

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On the Diversity of Interdomain Routing in Africa

On the Diversity of Interdomain Routing in Africa

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In 2013 and 2014 we looked into measuring Interdomain Routing in Africa using the RIPE Atlas infrastructure. This resulted in a paper published at the PAM (Passive and Active Measurement) 2015 conference. Here we present some highlights of this research.

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