Network Operations

Enabling Data Compression in RIPE Atlas

Daniel Quinn

• 17 Jun 2015

• 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?

Cengiz Alaettinoglu

• 9 Jun 2015

• 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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IPv6 Deployment in Estonia

Tarko Tikan

• 4 Jun 2015

• 7 min read

Some time ago, many people noticed rapid IPv6 deployment growth in Estonia (from 0% to 5% in 4 weeks). Tarko Tikan, from 3249/Elion/Estonian Telecom, explains the reason behind this.

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The DNS Root Zone Key-Signing Key is Changing

Mirjam Kühne

• 27 May 2015

• 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

George Michaelson

• 25 May 2015

• 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

Mirjam Kühne

• 22 May 2015

• 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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Figure 1: Comparison of time to read the RIB file

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

Yasuhiro Ohara

• 12 May 2015

• 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

FANOU Roderick

• 8 May 2015

• 9 min read

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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IPv4 Transfers in the RIPE NCC Service Region

Rene Wilhelm

• 6 May 2015

• 19 min read

Now that the RIPE NCC has reached its last /8, some Local Internet Registries (LIRs) are choosing to obtain additional address space from other organisations via the emerging transfer market. Here we examine statistics from the last two and a half years of transfers and visualise per country aggreg…

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Measuring Countries and IXPs in the SEE Region

Emile Aben

• 24 Apr 2015

• 13 min read

We looked at Internet measurements for the South East Europe (SEE) region in order to share these with attendees at the SEE 4 Meeting that took place from 21-22 April 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia. This is the long version of the lightning talk Vesna Manojlovic gave at SEE 4.

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