Network Operations

IPv6 RIPEness: Production & Updates

Vesna Manojlovic

• 31 Oct 2011

• 4 min read

Following your feedback, we decided to make IPv6 RIPEness a production service. We are currently working on some new features. Stay tuned!

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Addresses for RIPE RIS Beacons in Jeopardy

Daniel Karrenberg

• 31 Oct 2011

• 4 min read

According to address policy, the experimental address allocations for RIPE RIS beacons have to be returned soon. This would mean we have to either discontinue the RIS beacons or request permanent allocations for them according to address policy. We are asking for community support to continue opera…

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Large-scale PCAP Data Analysis Using Apache Hadoop

Wolfgang Nagele

• 12 Oct 2011

• 3 min read

The RIPE NCC operates various data intensive services. As part of our DNS operations we have been operating K-root since 1997. A key to the stable operation of this service is a solid understanding of the traffic it responds to and how it evolves over time. With the success and growth of the Int…

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Routing IPv6 in 2011

Geoff Huston

• 4 Oct 2011

• 5 min read

This is a follow-up to the recently published article "Routing 2011" which focused on IPv4. In this new article Geoff is looking at the IPv6 routing table.

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F-root IPv6 Route Leak - the DNSMON View

Emile Aben

• 3 Oct 2011

• 4 min read

This weekend the NANOG mailing list was abuzz about an F-root IPv6 route leak, that resulted in the F-root DNS server instance located in Bejing, China, being queried from outside of China. This normally doesn't happen, as this instance is advertised with the BGP attribute NO_EXPORT, which means it…

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Routing 2011

Geoff Huston

• 26 Sep 2011

• 4 min read

The size of the global routing table has been growing at a constant pace for many years. However, over the last few months, it is not growing as fast as it used to.

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Hacking Away at the Internet's Security

Geoff Huston

• 20 Sep 2011

• 19 min read

The front page story of the September 13 2011 issue of the International Herald Tribune said it all: "Iranian activists feel the chill as hacker taps into e-mails." The news story relates how a hacker has "sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam" and then …

security

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Registry Data Quality Assessment – Phase 2

Xavier Le Bris

• 12 Sep 2011

• 7 min read

In order to ensure accurate and up-to-date registration data, the RIPE NCC started to evaluate Registry Data Quality (RDQ) in 2009. The second phase has now been finalised and the results are encouraging.

ipv4

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Status of Legacy IPv4 Address Space

Xavier Le Bris

• 12 Sep 2011

• 2 min read

Last year, we described how we were actively encouraging holders of unused or unannounced IPv4 address space to return it. In this article we report on the responses we have received.