Network Operations

Time Warner Cable Outage

Emile Aben

• 28 Aug 2014

• 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?

Emile Aben

• 19 Aug 2014

• 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

Wouter Miltenburg

• 21 Jul 2014

• 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

Emile Aben

• 9 Jul 2014

• 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

Marco Hogewoning

• 30 Jun 2014

• 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…

ipv6

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The IPv6 Analyser

Alex Band

• 20 Jun 2014

• 4 min read

The IPv6 Analyser is a toolset that offers our members a visual insight into all the allocations, aggregations and assignments they have made. It was announced a few weeks ago and we're seeing LIRs starting to use it. Please find below some more details about this tool.

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SSHCure: SSH Intrusion Detection Using NetFlow and IPFIX

Luuk Hendriks

• 5 Jun 2014

• 4 min read

SSHCure is an Intrusion Detection System for SSH, developed at the University of Twente. It allows analysing large amounts of flow data and is the first IDS capable of identifying actual compromises. Being deployed in various networks, ranging from small Web-hosting companies to nation-wide backb…

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Basic Evaluation of new IXP Peering Partners with RIPE Atlas and Zabbix

Daniel Gomez

• 26 May 2014

• 6 min read

In this article we explain how we used RIPE Atlas to evaluate new synaix's peering partners within an Internet Exchange Point and how this helped to improve our customer services.

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Better Crypto - Applied Cryptography Hardening

Aaron Kaplan

• 22 May 2014

• 5 min read

This project aims at creating a simple, copy & paste-able HOWTO for secure crypto settings of the most common services (webservers, mail, ssh, etc.). It was presented at the recent RIPE 68 Meeting in Warsaw. For those of you who couldn't attend the meeting, here is summary of the talk.

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Survey on Mitigation and Response of Network Attacks

Jessica Steinberger

• 21 May 2014

• 2 min read

Network-based attacks pose a strong threat to the Internet landscape. In my PhD I am investigating different approaches on attack mitigation and response. Yet, a clear understanding of how mitigation and response is performed in commercial networks is missing. Hence, this survey aims at gaining ins…

security

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