Network Operations

Improved Routing Information Available via RIPEstat

Fatemah Mafi

• 23 Aug 2013

• 15 min read

Our Routing Information Service (RIS) has been collecting global BGP routing information for 12 years. During this period, many different interfaces to analyse and visualise accumulated data have been developed. In line with our long-term goals to provide more consolidated services, we will be inte…

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Using the RIPE Database as an Internet Routing Registry

Denis Walker

• 22 Aug 2013

• 19 min read

The RIPE Database operates as an open, public database for routing information. This information is not restricted to the RIPE NCC service region or to resources administered by the RIPE NCC.

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Future of RIPE NCC Technical Services

Kaveh Ranjbar

• 20 Aug 2013

• 12 min read

As the new Chief Information Officer at the RIPE NCC, I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some of my ideas about the future direction of the technical services we offer to the community. This includes focusing on RIPE Atlas as the RIPE NCC’s data collection system, RIPEstat as the R…

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IPv6 ASNs - Network Size Matters

Emile Aben

• 12 Aug 2013

• 5 min read

This article provides statistics about how much IPv4 address space is being announced by networks (ASNs) that are also announcing IPv6 address space. Currently this is about 70% of IPv4 address space.

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RPKI - A Dashboard for BGP Operators

Javy de Koning

• 31 Jul 2013

• 8 min read

SURFnet's RPKI Dashboard provides network operators with a number of RPKI statistics and assists them in cleaning up possible invalid prefixes. This will hopefully increase the deployment of RPKI.

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Here’s looking at you …

Geoff Huston

• 4 Jul 2013

• 29 min read

Much has been said in recent weeks about various forms of cyber spying. The United States has accused the Chinese of cyber espionage and stealing industrial secrets. A former contractor to the United States’ NSA, Edward Snowden, has accused various US intelligence agencies of systematic examination…

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All IP Addresses Are Equal? "dot-zero" Addresses Are Less Equal

Stéphane Bortzmeyer

• 3 Jul 2013

• 4 min read

In theory, all IP addresses are the same, and you can allocate them at random without a problem. 192.168.1.2 is certainly not better or worse than 192.168.1.15, right? But, in practice, certain IP addresses are regarded as "special" by some implementations and do not yield the same user experience.…

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IPv6 Internet Pollution

Manish Karir

• 25 Jun 2013

• 6 min read

Following up from earlier experiments in which MERIT looked at pollution of IPv4 prefixes, Manish Karir and his colleagues now did an experiment with various IPv6 prefixes. The results can be found in this article.

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IPv6 Security - An Overview

Johannes Weber

• 18 Jun 2013

• 7 min read

The advent of IPv6 changes not only the network components, but also the security field shifts. We see new types of attacks or at least variations of the attacks we know from IPv4. This article provides an overview of the IPv6 security vulnerabilities that arise with the launch of IPv6.

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Happy Eyeballs

Vaibhav Bajpai

• 13 Jun 2013

• 4 min read

The IETF has developed solutions that promote a healthy IPv4 and IPv6 co-existence. The happy eyeballs algorithm for instance, provides recommendations to application developers to help prevent bad user experience in situations where IPv6 connectivity is broken. We study the effectiveness of the ha…

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