RIPE NCC

Operator Level DNS Hijacking

Babak Farrokhi

• 11 Jul 2016

• 3 min read

Following my recent research on DNS hijacking and the cases I have personally observed, I wondered whether this is a common practice among the operators. With the help of RIPE Atlas, I started to think of a solution to figure out whether such practice is widespread in other areas of the world.

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Securing Network Infrastructure for DNS Servers

Ramtin Kiaei

• 28 Jun 2016

• 15 min read

In this article, I'm showing how we can mitigate DNS attacks by implementing a stateless firewall filter at the aggregation or edge router.

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Reducing the BGP Table Size - A Fairy Tale

George Michaelson

• 20 Jun 2016

• 11 min read

The issue of the relative sizes of the IPv4 and IPv6 Internet in BGP came up during discussion at the APNIC/APRICOT meeting held in Auckland, New Zealand earlier this year.

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RIPE Atlas Interface Hackathon Results

Vesna Manojlovic

• 16 Jun 2016

• 6 min read

The third RIPE Atlas hackathon took place in Copenhagen the weekend before RIPE 72. In this article, we share the details about the hackathon and a preview of the fourth hackathon.

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A Visual Impression of Probe Lifetimes

Philip Homburg

• 25 May 2016

• 3 min read

For a while now, the number of active RIPE Atlas probes has hovered around the 9,400 mark. This means that new probes are being connected at a fast enough rate to replace failing probes, but not enough to grow the network. At the same time, the version 3 probes have problems with their USB sticks. …

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Introducing the RIPE Forum

Marco Schmidt

• 11 Apr 2016

• 6 min read

The RIPE NCC has developed an additional interface for the RIPE community mailing lists – something that we hope will encourage more interaction and discussion among the RIPE community.

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Improving "Syncupdates" in the RIPE Database

Alex Band

• 6 Apr 2016

• 3 min read

Over the last couple of months we've been putting a lot of focus on improving the usability of the RIPE Database web interface. We started with tightly integrating our Single Sign-On system, RIPE NCC Access, into webupdates. This allows users to seamlessly make changes in all of the different RIPE …

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How Pingable are the Pingables?

Rene Wilhelm

• 5 Apr 2016

• 15 min read

In February 2011 the RIPE NCC implemented the "pingable:" and "ping-hdl:" attributes in the RIPE Database. These attributes were added to the Routing Policy Specification Language by RFC 5943 to allow networks to advertise IP addresses that are reachable and can be used as a target for diagnostic…

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10,000 LIRs with IPv6 Resources

Nathalie Trenaman

• 29 Feb 2016

• 6 min read

This week, the RIPE NCC saw a milestone as the 10,000th Local Internet Registry (LIR) received IPv6 addresses. The first block of IPv6 addresses was allocated from IANA to the RIPE NCC in 1999, so we have been distributing IPv6 addresses for 17 years. In those years we have seen interesting poli…

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RIPE NCC Members and Multiple LIR Accounts

Laura Cobley

• 11 Feb 2016

• 7 min read

The RIPE NCC membership has raised concerns regarding members setting up additional Local Internet Registry (LIR) accounts. The RIPE NCC Executive Board is now asking the RIPE NCC membership to discuss this. The article below provides some background information, data and statistics for the discuss…

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