RIPE NCC

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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The Revamped RIPE Atlas Website

Suzanne Taylor

• 4 Feb 2016

• 5 min read

RIPE Atlas has been in operation for more than five years now, and its network of probes and users has grown tremendously in that time. We’ve also added anchors, sponsors and ambassadors to the system, developed a huge array of new tools, visualisations and features, and RIPE Atlas data is now bein…

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Keeping the Registry Up to Date in a World of IPv4 Transfers

Matt Parker

• 17 Dec 2015

• 4 min read

High quality registry data is important - even more so with the recent increase in address transfers and the exhaustion of the global IPv4 pool. This article explores how we will be enhancing our tools and processes to ensure the RIPE Registry remains up-to-date in this challenging environment.

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Improving the RIPE Database Web Interface

Alex Band

• 24 Nov 2015

• 5 min read

There is an extensive project underway to make our services easier to use and work together seamlessly, so that they provide the most value to you. Over the last couple of months we have been working very hard on the RIPE Database. We have made some fundamental changes to the web interface, which w…

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Processing RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat Data with Hadoop

Paul de Weerd

• 19 Nov 2015

• 4 min read

The RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS) and RIPE Atlas produce large amounts of data that needs to be processed, stored and made available to the public. We've been using Hadoop for some time now. In this article we look at the design of the infrastructure we currently have in place and describe…

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