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LACNIC Assists RPKI Deployment in Ecuador

LACNIC Assists RPKI Deployment in Ecuador

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Sofía Silva Berenguer

6 min read

This is an example of how LACNIC has helped with RPKI deployment and created a success story to encourage others in similar initiatives.

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New gTLD Concerns: Dotless Names and Name Collisions

New gTLD Concerns: Dotless Names and Name Collisions

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Geoff Huston

27 min read

In the long discussions about the new generic Top level Domains (gTLD), there were two technical topics that were the subject of many assertions and little in the way of observed data. The first concerned the viability of a so-called "dotless" name, where the gTLD label itself contains an IP addres…

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Measuring Google's Public DNS

Measuring Google's Public DNS

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Geoff Huston

34 min read

Much has been said about how Google uses the services they provide, including their mail service, their office productivity tools, file storage and similar services, as a means of gathering an accurate profile of each individual user of their services. The company has made a very successful busines…

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How “National” is the Dutch Critical IP Infrastructure?

How “National” is the Dutch Critical IP Infrastructure?

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Benno Overeinder

10 min read

After the publication of the Critical Infrastructure Protection report more than ten years ago, we asked ourselves how critical infrastructure companies are interconnected, how resilient these connections are, and to which extent they are dependent on foreign entities.

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RIPE Atlas - Packet Size Matters

RIPE Atlas - Packet Size Matters

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Emile Aben

15 min read

This new RIPE Labs article talks about trying to send large packets over the Internet. Above a certain size, these packets will have to be fragmented, which is known to cause problems. In both IPv4 and IPv6, we see approximately 10% of RIPE Atlas probes that are unsuccessful in pings with fragmente…

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Valuing IP Addresses

Valuing IP Addresses

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Geoff Huston

14 min read

The prospect of exhaustion of the IPv4 address space is not a surprise. We've been anticipating this situation since at least 1990. But it's a "lumpy" form of exhaustion. It's not the case that the scarcity pressures for IP addresses are evidently to the same level in every part of the Internet. It…

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The Assisted Registry Check - Let Us Help You!

The Assisted Registry Check - Let Us Help You!

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Matt Parker

4 min read

The Assisted Registry Check is the new name for the RIPE NCC’s audit activities that have been improved using feedback from RIPE NCC members and the RIPE community. This improvement aims to make the process more efficient and less time consuming for Local Internet Registries (LIRs).

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Visualising Bandwidth Capacity and Network Activity in RIPEstat Using M-Lab Data

Visualising Bandwidth Capacity and Network Activity in RIPEstat Using M-Lab Data

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Vasco Asturiano

11 min read

As a result of the cooperation between the RIPE NCC and Measurement Lab (M-Lab), you can now visualise the bandwidth profiles and network activity of IP prefixes and individual countries. This is provided as RIPEstat widgets using data collected by the M-Lab platform. See below for details about th…

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All IP Addresses Are Not The Same

All IP Addresses Are Not The Same

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Geoff Huston

14 min read

One IP address is much the same as another – right? There’s hardly a difference between 192.0.2.45 and 192.0.2.46 is there? They are just encoded integer values, and aside from numerological considerations, one address value is as good or bad as any other – right? So IP addresses are much the same …

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A Question of DNS Protocols

A Question of DNS Protocols

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Geoff Huston

28 min read

In this article we are looking at possible ways to prevent denial of service attacks. One solution could be to use TCP instead of UDP for large DNS responses. We conducted an experiment to find out what the resolution failure rate would be.

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