Technology and Innovation

Detection of Peering Infrastructure Outages Based on BGP Communities

Vasileios Giotsas

• 24 Jul 2018

• 8 min read

Networks rely increasingly on Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and carrier-neutral interconnection facilities that enable dense localised peering connectivity to handle the massive traffic exchange between clients and servers.

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ARTEMIS: Neutralising BGP Hijacking Within a Minute

Vasileios Kotronis

• 19 Jul 2018

• 9 min read

BGP prefix hijacking is a persistent threat against Internet organisations, attributed to a lack of authorisation and authentication mechanisms in the inter-domain routing system. ARTEMIS (Automatic and Real-Time dEtection and MItigation System) is a defence system against BGP prefix hijacking, whi…

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Join the Quantum Internet Hackathon 2018

Vesna Manojlovic

• 18 Jul 2018

• 11 min read

The eighth RIPE NCC hackathon takes on the Quantum Internet! The hackathon will be held during the weekend before RIPE 77 in Amsterdam, and is co-organised by QuTech and TU Delft, along with the RIPE NCC. We're bringing together network operators, quantum networking researchers, students, hackers, …

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Results of the Network Operators Tools Hackathon

Vesna Manojlovic

• 17 Jul 2018

• 7 min read

The RIPE NCC and iNOG organised a hackathon in June 2018, in Dublin. This review celebrates the achievements of the hackathon, invites you to use our results, and welcomes your contributions for future hackathons!

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Big Data and Network Measurements at TMA 2018

Massimo Candela

• 11 Jul 2018

• 7 min read

The Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) took place in June in Vienna, Austria. A full week of events was scheduled - including a PhD school about Big Data on Monday and Tuesday, the TMA Experts Summit on Tuesday, and the main conference from Wednesday to Friday. Here's my summ…

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Lightweight 4over6: One-step Further Than Dual-stack Networks

Diego Pino Garcia

• 28 Jun 2018

• 5 min read

Dual-stack has been one of the most popular transition technologies used to deploy IPv6. This is largely because it allows for routing of IPv4 and IPv6 traffic in parallel.

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Real-Time Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Web Browsing Sessions

Antoine Saverimoutou

• 22 Jun 2018

• 7 min read

This post introduces the MORIS (Measuring and Observing Representative Information of webSites) probe, a tool for measuring automated web browsing sessions, which allows to estimate end-users’ QoE (Quality of Experience) in various situations and to perform troubleshooting when it is degraded.

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Honeypot-based Monitoring of Amplification DDoS Attacks

Johannes Krupp

• 19 Jun 2018

• 5 min read

Amplification DDoS attacks are one of the most prevalent forms of denial-of-service attacks. The SISSDEN project (sissden.eu) operates a network of honeypots designed to detect these attacks, observing 10,000 per day.

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Measuring the Adoption of RPKI Route Origin Validation

Andreas Reuter

• 19 Jun 2018

• 10 min read

The number of Resource Certificates and ROAs is steadily growing, especially in the RIPE NCC service region. However, it remains unclear how widely BGP speakers on the Internet are actually using route origin validation (ROV) to drop or de-preference invalid announcements.