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Secure Internet Routing with RPKI

Secure Internet Routing with RPKI

Remy de Boer

6 min read

Last week we improved the security of our routing infrastructure by implementing RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure), a technology that can be used to secure the Internet routing infrastructure. RPKI was the topic of my Master's thesis and in this article I am trying to convince you to use th…

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Experiment Proposal to Improve K-root

Experiment Proposal to Improve K-root

Suzanne Taylor

4 min read

We used RIPE Atlas to measure latency times to K-root, and we believe we can improve those times by adding new nodes to K-root in strategic locations. Here, we propose the idea of developing an experiment that would let us measure this potential improvement.

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LISPmob: a Flexible LISP Implementation

LISPmob: a Flexible LISP Implementation

Alberto Rodriguez-Natal

12 min read

The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) decouples identity from location on the current IP addresses by creating two separate namespaces. The LISPmob project aims to bring a full-featured LISP open-source implementation to Linux-flavoured systems.

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Building The Next Generation RIS Route Collectors

Building The Next Generation RIS Route Collectors

Wouter Miltenburg

7 min read

This is the second part of a research project investigating the possible replacement of the current Remote Route Collectors (RRC) used for the Routing Information Services (RIS). In the second phase we developed a prototype based on the requirements determined in the first phase. Both parts of …

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Propagation of Longer-than-/24 IPv4 Prefixes

Propagation of Longer-than-/24 IPv4 Prefixes

Emile Aben

8 min read

Under ARIN's Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) Section 4.10, the IPv4 address block 23.128/10 is reserved for allocations and assignments dedicated to facilitate IPv6 deployment. The maximum allocation size is a /24; the minimum allocation size is a /28. There has been much discussion on the NAN…

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Time Warner Cable Outage

Time Warner Cable Outage

Emile Aben

8 min read

The Time Warner Cable network suffered an outage on 27 August 2014 between approximately 9:40 and 10:55 UTC. We looked at some interesting details of this outage using RIS and RIPE Atlas.

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512K-mageddon?

512K-mageddon?

Emile Aben

6 min read

A week after the 512K-routes problem started making waves, we took a look at the global effects to see what impact it had. Spoiler: Not much.

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Researching Next Generation RIS Route Collectors

Researching Next Generation RIS Route Collectors

Wouter Miltenburg

12 min read

This project was initiated to research, develop and deploy a prototype that could potentially replace the current Remote Route Collectors (RRCs) and which invokes less delay. It was a graduation project for my bachelor thesis at the HvA (Hogeschool van Amsterdam). This article outlines the possible…

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How RIPE Atlas Helped Wikipedia Users

How RIPE Atlas Helped Wikipedia Users

Emile Aben

6 min read

Engineers from the Wikimedia Foundation and the RIPE NCC recently collaborated on a project to measure the latency of Wikimedia sites for users worldwide. Together, we identified ways to decrease latency and improve performance for users around the world.

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IPv6 to Secure Business Continuity

IPv6 to Secure Business Continuity

Marco Hogewoning

9 min read

Every few months somewhere somebody will tell you that the sky is falling and the end of the Internet is close. The reasons brought up vary through a broad spectrum from superior technology to the lack of capacity. To a large extent people in the industry have become immune to these messages, for t…

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