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SHA2017: Hackers' Camping, RIPE Topics

SHA2017: Hackers' Camping, RIPE Topics

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Vesna Manojlovic

9 min read

Today begins the newest edition of four-yearly Dutch summer camping conferences for and by hackers: SHA2017. Since there is an overlap between topics and participants within the RIPE community, this is an invitation to the talks and workshops that might interest you.

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Detecting Network Outages with RIPE Atlas

Detecting Network Outages with RIPE Atlas

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Anant Shah

7 min read

This post describes a technique to detect bursty TCP disconnections, and how it can be used on RIPE Atlas data to better detect outages in the Internet.

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Public Policy Demands Better Statistics

Public Policy Demands Better Statistics

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George Michaelson

20 min read

This is a story about science and data and how we need to apply rigour if we want to use data to inform and influence policy decisions. It is also a story about HTTPS.

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On the Operators' Perspective on Security Misconfigurations ㄧ The Survey

On the Operators' Perspective on Security Misconfigurations ㄧ The Survey

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Constanze Dietrich

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We want to fully understand the issue of security misconfigurations. We have some preliminary findings. But we need your help: Please, participate in our anonymous survey on security misconfigurations.

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Taking it to the Limit - Testing the Performance of R&E Networking

Taking it to the Limit - Testing the Performance of R&E Networking

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Mirjam Kühne

6 min read

Please read this guest post by Mian Usman, Network Architect at GÉANT: One of the big questions often asked of R&E networking is why? Why, when commercial networks are so large, is there still a need for dedicated research networks? Surely organisations can simply buy commercial off-the-shelf netw…

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BGP Even-More Specifics in 2017

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Stephen Strowes

8 min read

Since October 2014, we have been advertising two IPv4 /25s and two IPv4 /28s, to better understand how far they propagate across the network. In this article, we review how things have (or have not) changed over the years.

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The Internet was Built on Trust. But What Does it Run On?

The Internet was Built on Trust. But What Does it Run On?

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Uta Meier-Hahn

12 min read

One of the most noble narratives about the Internet is that it is built on trust. This article sets out to check if that saying still holds true.

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Talking Traffic at TMA 2017

Talking Traffic at TMA 2017

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Stephen Strowes

7 min read

Last week, the Network Traffic, Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) took place in Maynooth, Ireland. A full week was scheduled, featuring a PhD school across Monday and Tuesday, the Mobile Network Measurements (MNM) workshop on Tuesday, and the main conference from Wednesday to Friday. We wer…

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Recursives in the Wild: Engineering Authoritative DNS Servers

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Moritz Müller

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By analysing how resolvers select authoritative name servers in the wild we investigated how DNS operators are able to reduce DNS response times.

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Why is the Internet so Slow?

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Mirjam Kühne

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Ilker Nadi Bozkurt and his colleagues found that the Internet is much slower than it could be. They wonder where this slowdown comes from and what can be done about it.

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