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Is Your ISP Hijacking Your DNS Traffic?

Operator Level DNS Hijacking

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Babak Farrokhi

3 min read

Following my recent research on DNS hijacking and the cases I have personally observed, I wondered whether this is a common practice among the operators. With the help of RIPE Atlas, I started to think of a solution to figure out whether such practice is widespread in other areas of the world.

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Can You Make IPv6 Work Commercially?

Can You Make IPv6 Work Commercially?

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Marco Hogewoning

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Large scale IPv6 deployments suggest that IPv6 is at least a technical success - the technology works. Now it's time to visit the other important question: does it work commercially? Does IPv6 really come with a positive business case? We are about to find out, if you help us... (for instance by f…

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Is Your ISP Hijacking Your DNS Traffic?

Is Your ISP Hijacking Your DNS Traffic?

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Babak Farrokhi

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You might not have noticed, but there are chances that your ISP is playing nasty tricks with your DNS traffic.

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Scaling the Internet of Things? Not a Problem!

Scaling the Internet of Things? Not a Problem!

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Shane Kerr

11 min read

What makes the Internet of Things (IoT) different from the Internet as we know it? Today's Internet connects people, while the Internet of Things connects... things. What are these things? In the case of IoT, it means embedded computer chips that are attached to some physical device with networking…

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Securing Network Infrastructure for DNS Servers

Securing Network Infrastructure for DNS Servers

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Ramtin Kiaei

15 min read

In this article, I'm showing how we can mitigate DNS attacks by implementing a stateless firewall filter at the aggregation or edge router.

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K-root Reachability in the Middle East and Central Asia

K-root Reachability in the Middle East and Central Asia

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Babak Farrokhi

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There are about 600 DNS root server instances deployed around the world. But does everyone have an equal level of access to a root server in their region? Are they fairly distributed? Do all major (and country level) network operators recognise the value in deploying (or peering with) a root server…

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Reducing the BGP Table Size - A Fairy Tale

Reducing the BGP Table Size - A Fairy Tale

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George Michaelson

11 min read

The issue of the relative sizes of the IPv4 and IPv6 Internet in BGP came up during discussion at the APNIC/APRICOT meeting held in Auckland, New Zealand earlier this year.

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RIPE Atlas Interface Hackathon Results

RIPE Atlas Interface Hackathon Results

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Vesna Manojlovic

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The third RIPE Atlas hackathon took place in Copenhagen the weekend before RIPE 72. In this article, we share the details about the hackathon and a preview of the fourth hackathon.

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Anycast vs. DDoS - Evaluating the November 2015 Root DNS Event

Anycast vs. DDoS - Evaluating the November 2015 Root DNS Event

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Giovane Moura

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IP anycast has been widely used to replicate services in multiple locations as a way to deliver better performance and resilience. It has been largely employed by CDNs and DNS operators, such as on the root server system. However, there is little evaluation of anycast under stress.

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How are you Deploying IPv6? Take this Survey

How are you Deploying IPv6? Take this Survey

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Jordi Palet Martinez

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After 15 years conducting training on IPv6 in over 110 countries, I’ve been asked all sorts of questions. “How do I use my IPv6 addressing space?” “What prefix size should I provide to customers?” Although I have answers to these and many other best practice related questions, the one question, whi…

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