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Analysing the Costs (and Benefits) of DNS, DoT, and DoH for the Modern Web

Analysing the Costs (and Benefits) of DNS, DoT, and DoH for the Modern Web

Austin Hounsel

7 min read

All Internet communication relies on the Domain Name System (DNS), which maps a human-readable name to an IP address before two endpoints establish a connection to exchange data.

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Internet Clouds are (also) Unpredictable: A Study on the Effects of Recent Traffic Engineering Trends In Cloud Provider Networks

Internet Clouds are (also) Unpredictable: A Study on the Effects of Recent Traffic Engineering Trends In Cloud Provider Networks

Marco Chiesa

8 min read

How does the largest cloud provider worldwide perform Traffic-Engineering? What are the implications for the geo-distributed applications running in the cloud? We explored these and more questions through a comprehensive set of measurements across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud network.

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5 Reasons why the Internet of Things is for you – really!

5 Reasons why the Internet of Things is for you – really!

Constanze Dietrich

2 min read

Okay, fine – the title is a clickbait. However, we have some awesome project proposals and indeed really good reasons to join the upcoming IoT hackathon in Rotterdam on 12 - 13 October - right before RIPE 79!

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Take part in Pan-European Quantum Internet Hackathon

Take part in Pan-European Quantum Internet Hackathon

Ulka Athale

6 min read

We take on the Quantum Internet simultaneously in six nodes across Europe on 5-6 November 2019. Join us in Delft, Dublin, Geneva, Padua, Paris or Sarajevo!

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Shaping the Internet: History and Impact of IXP Growth

Shaping the Internet: History and Impact of IXP Growth

Ignacio Castro

5 min read

It’s 1990: the Internet has a few million users and the first commercial companies have recently embraced this new distributed infrastructure.

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Join the IoT Hackathon Rotterdam 2019

Join the IoT Hackathon Rotterdam 2019

Vesna Manojlovic

7 min read

The tenth RIPE NCC Hackathon takes on the Internet of Things (IoT)! Join us on 12-13 October 2019 in Rotterdam.

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A Glimpse into New Internet Research at IEEE ISCC

A Glimpse into New Internet Research at IEEE ISCC

Gergana Petrova

10 min read

This year’s Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) touched on many topics such as edge and fog, new challenges related to smart computing and networking, big data computing and communications performance. Read on to see a few highlights.

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The Tale of Website Popularity Rankings: An Extensive Analysis

The Tale of Website Popularity Rankings: An Extensive Analysis

17 min read

How reliable are the website popularity rankings like the Alexa top one million that many of us use in our research? We analysed four ranking lists and discovered the impact they have on research results and how easily they can be manipulated. For this reason, we created Tranco, a new improved p…

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BGP Zombies

BGP Zombies

Romain Fontugne

8 min read

When withdrawing an IP prefix from the Internet, an origin network sends BGP withdraw messages, which are expected to propagate to all BGP routers that hold an entry for that IP prefix in their routing table. Yet network operators occasionally report issues where routers maintain routes to IP prefi…

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BGP Communities - A Weapon for the Internet (Part 2)

BGP Communities - A Weapon for the Internet (Part 2)

Florian Streibelt

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This is the second of two articles in which we present a new attack vector on the routing infrastructure of the Internet using BGP communities.

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