Network Operations

Results of the IPv6 Deployment Survey

Jordi Palet Martinez

• 14 Nov 2016

• 12 min read

Over the past year, I have been conducting a public survey to better understand how ISPs deploy IPv6. In this post, I will summarise some of the key findings thus far.

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Large BGP Communities - Largely Accepted Now?

Emile Aben

• 11 Nov 2016

• 11 min read

Large BGP Communities are an addition to BGP that solves a communication problem between networks that want to use 32-bit AS Numbers. We measured how Large BGP Communities behave "in the wild" and if they create any problems.

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Routing Detours: Can We Avoid Nation-State Surveillance?

Annie Edmundson

• 9 Nov 2016

• 6 min read

An increasing number of countries are passing laws that facilitate the mass surveillance of their citizens. In response, governments and citizens are increasingly paying attention to the countries that their Internet traffic traverses. In some cases, countries are taking extreme steps, such as bui…

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IXP Tools Hackathon Results

Vesna Manojlovic

• 1 Nov 2016

• 6 min read

The fourth RIPE NCC Hackathon was as fun and productive as the previous three, with even more supporting organisations and participants. This short article aims to express our gratitude to everyone involved and to give a summary of our experiences, while several projects will be described in more d…

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The Death of Transit?

Geoff Huston

• 31 Oct 2016

• 17 min read

Geoff Huston discusses the possible demise of transit services and the rise of content networking.

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Speculating on DNS DDoS

Geoff Huston

• 28 Oct 2016

• 16 min read

The recent attacks on the DNS infrastructure operated by Dyn have generated a lot of comment in recent days. Indeed, it’s not often that the DNS itself has been prominent in the mainstream of news commentary and, in some ways, this DNS DDoS prominence is for all the wrong reasons! I’d like to specu…

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The Trouble with NAT - Part 3

Mirjam Kühne

• 27 Oct 2016

• 6 min read

This is the final post in a series on Network Address Translation (NAT), provided by Mark Smith. In this post, Mark discusses the fundamental constraints of NAT and addresses some FAQs about IPv6 without NAT.

ipv4
ipv6

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The Trouble with NAT - Part 2

Mirjam Kühne

• 27 Oct 2016

• 12 min read

This is the second post in a series on NATs contributed by Mark Smith, based on a presentation given at AusNOG 2016. In the first post, Mark discussed Network Critical Success Factors (NCSFs). In this post, he is going into details about the trouble with Network Address Translation (NAT).

ipv4
ipv6

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The Trouble with NAT - Part 1

Mirjam Kühne

• 27 Oct 2016

• 7 min read

This is a guest post by Mark Smith, based on a presentation he gave at the AusNOG 2016 conference on this topic. This is the first post of three, and in this article Mark will discuss the concept of Network Critical Success Factors (NCSFs) before getting into ‘the trouble’.

ipv6
ipv4

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A Quick Look at the Attack on Dyn

Massimo Candela

• 24 Oct 2016

• 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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