RIPE NCC

A Tale of BGP Collectors and Customer Cones

Emile Aben

• 5 Oct 2015

• 11 min read

When operators and researchers use data from BGP route collectors such as RIS and Route Views, it's not easy to tell if a path announced to a collector is an ISP's customer cone, an internal route, or one learned from peering or transit. In this post we look at what information we can currently get…

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Iran and K-root: The Rest of the Story

Emile Aben

• 30 Sep 2015

• 11 min read

Dyn Research published an article on K-root recently. Here we would like to augment the picture with data from RIPE Atlas in order to provide a more complete picture of the effect of the K-root node in Iran.

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Has the Routability of Longer-than-/24 Prefixes Changed?

Emile Aben

• 11 Sep 2015

• 6 min read

In October 2014 we started announcing a few longer-than-/24 prefixes and determined they were not very visible according to the Routing Information Service (RIS) and RIPE Atlas measurements. Now, almost a year later, we revisit this.

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Analysing the K-root Anycast Infrastructure

JH Kuipers

• 27 Jul 2015

• 4 min read

Anycast is used by most of the DNS root-servers and other services like Cloudflare. It provides localisation and scaling benefits to clients using the anycasted service. An anycast service uses one IP for several instances of the same service. The routing system is then responsible for directing a …

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Extending RIPE Atlas' Reach

Vesna Manojlovic

• 24 Jul 2015

• 5 min read

In an effort to increase the growth rate of connected RIPE Atlas probes and achieve better coverage across the globe, our Measurements Community Building team is experimenting with new outreach methods.

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Security and Trust in the Internet Routing Registries operated by the RIRs

Den Is

• 4 May 2015

• 14 min read

At the RIPE 69 meeting, the use of the RIPE Database as an Internet Routing Registry (IRR) and it's relationship with other IRRs was raised. But there hasn't been much discussion on options for the way forward since. Based on what was said at RIPE 69 and the few comments made on the mailing list, I…

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Measuring Countries and IXPs in the SEE Region

Emile Aben

• 24 Apr 2015

• 13 min read

We looked at Internet measurements for the South East Europe (SEE) region in order to share these with attendees at the SEE 4 Meeting that took place from 21-22 April 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia. This is the long version of the lightning talk Vesna Manojlovic gave at SEE 4.

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RIPE Atlas DataViz Hackathon Results

Vesna Manojlovic

• 10 Apr 2015

• 12 min read

In March 2015, a diverse group of contributors got together to come up with creative ways to visualise the health of the Internet using RIPE Atlas open measurements data. It was the first RIPE Atlas hackathon. Impressive results were hacked together by programmers, designers and operators during an…

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Redesigning the RIPE NCC Website: Template and Visual Design

Adam Castle

• 9 Apr 2015

• 9 min read

This article is the third in a series that explains the main changes we're making to the RIPE NCC website as part of the website redesign project. Now that we're just a few days away from the launch on 13 April, we wanted to give you a sneak peek of the new visual design, and explain some of the ba…