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IPv4 in the RIPE NCC Service Region - Three Years After Reaching the Last /8

IPv4 in the RIPE NCC Service Region - Three Years After Reaching the Last /8

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Rene Wilhelm

8 min read

In September 2012 the RIPE NCC reached its last /8 of available IPv4 addresses. This activated a new phase in the RIPE IPv4 policies, with each LIR now eligible to receive one final /22 allocation. In this article we look at developments in IPv4 allocations and remaining addresses at the RIPE NCC i…

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Real-time BGP Monitoring with Isolario and BGPlay

Real-time BGP Monitoring with Isolario and BGPlay

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Alessandro Improta

5 min read

The Isolario project introduces a new concept of Route Collectors to devise real-time services and attract new BGP data sources. Thanks to the integration of BGPlay, the project provides new interesting troubleshooting tools to monitor BGP routes in real-time.

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A Tale of BGP Collectors and Customer Cones

A Tale of BGP Collectors and Customer Cones

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Emile Aben

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When operators and researchers use data from BGP route collectors such as RIS and Route Views, it's not easy to tell if a path announced to a collector is an ISP's customer cone, an internal route, or one learned from peering or transit. In this post we look at what information we can currently get…

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Iran and K-root: The Rest of the Story

Iran and K-root: The Rest of the Story

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Emile Aben

11 min read

Dyn Research published an article on K-root recently. Here we would like to augment the picture with data from RIPE Atlas in order to provide a more complete picture of the effect of the K-root node in Iran.

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Real-time BGP Visualisation with BGPlay

Real-time BGP Visualisation with BGPlay

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Massimo Candela

6 min read

Please read about this new milestone release of the popular BGPlay web application. It can now receive BGP messages using WebSocket and update the visualisation on the fly.

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IPv6 on the March

IPv6 on the March

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Mirjam Kühne

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Tony Smith from APNIC is looking at the increase in IPv6 deployment now ARIN depleted their free pool of IPv4 addresses.

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Looking at France-IX with RIPE Atlas and RIS

Looking at France-IX with RIPE Atlas and RIS

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Emile Aben

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This article describes our recent collaborations with France-IX on collecting data plane and control plane Internet data with RIPE Atlas and the RIPE NCC's Routing Information Service (RIS).

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Mapping the Internet Infrastructure in Serbia

Mapping the Internet Infrastructure in Serbia

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Andrej Petrovski

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Through empirical research, SHARE Foundation created a map of the Internet in Serbia and analysed the implications network structure could have on Internet filtering. By visualising and analysing the structure and topology of individual Internet Service Providers in Serbia, we tried to determine ho…

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Checking your Internet Connectivity with RIPE Atlas Anchors

Checking your Internet Connectivity with RIPE Atlas Anchors

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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If you monitor your external Internet connectivity, you may wonder which machine is the best to ping. Hesitate no more - you can use RIPE Atlas anchors as landmarks.

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Has the Routability of Longer-than-/24 Prefixes Changed?

Has the Routability of Longer-than-/24 Prefixes Changed?

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Emile Aben

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In October 2014 we started announcing a few longer-than-/24 prefixes and determined they were not very visible according to the Routing Information Service (RIS) and RIPE Atlas measurements. Now, almost a year later, we revisit this.

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