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Namex Steps Into the Terabit Era

Namex Steps Into the Terabit Era

Flavio Luciani

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On 15 January, Namex reached a historic milestone: the first terabit of Internet network traffic, marking the beginning of a new chapter in its growth story. Coinciding with the broadcast of the Inter-Bologna football match by DAZN, the event highlighted the growing importance of live streaming for…

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Navigating Network Measurements - A Review of Results and Services

Navigating Network Measurements - A Review of Results and Services

Tobias Fiebig

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Following up on our previous article looking into the goals and infrastructure behind measurement.network, this time we're going over the services that were made available last year and the research done so far.

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Observing the DDoS Landscape Requires Collaboration

Observing the DDoS Landscape Requires Collaboration

Raphael Hiesgen

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Gaining a clear view of the DDoS landscape is vital for developing effective countermeasures against this prolific form of attack. A new study, carried out through collaboration between researchers from several institutions, helps bring DDoS into perspective.

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Securing Time for Any Device: Results From the Roughtime Hackathon at IETF 121

Securing Time for Any Device: Results From the Roughtime Hackathon at IETF 121

Robert Allen

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A Roughtime Hackathon at IETF 121 led by Netnod’s Technical Consultant, Marcus Dansarie, brought together developers and researchers to refine the protocol and its implementations. In this article, we summarise some of the outcomes from the hackathon.

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A Deep Dive Into the Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

A Deep Dive Into the Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

Emile Aben

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With last month’s cuts in two major Baltic Sea Internet cables now successfully repaired, and another cut having occurred in the meantime, we analyse these events and delve deeper into the question of how exactly the Internet has remained resilient.

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Navigating Network Measurements - Research, Risks and Reliability

Navigating Network Measurements - Research, Risks and Reliability

Tobias Fiebig

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Measuring the Internet is a delicate process and without the proper setup, things can get pretty out of hand pretty quickly. The measurement.network is a RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund supported project that helps researchers run network measurements without breaking things.

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Reaching AuthDNS - A RIPE Atlas Analysis by Region

Reaching AuthDNS - A RIPE Atlas Analysis by Region

Anand Buddhdev

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The RIPE NCC operates two independent anycast DNS services. One is K-root, a well-known service essential to DNS resolution. The other is the less well-known service, AuthDNS. We examine how queries reach AuthDNS from several regions and call for new hosts to help shorten the journey.

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Does the Internet Route Around Damage? - Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

Does the Internet Route Around Damage? - Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

Emile Aben

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This week's Internet cable cuts in the Baltic Sea have been widely reported, even as attempts to understand their cause and impact continue. We turn to RIPE Atlas to provide a preliminary analysis of these events and ask to what extent the Internet in the region has been resilient to them.

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The DNS Server That Lagged Behind

The DNS Server That Lagged Behind

Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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Around the end of October and beginning of November 2024, twenty six African TLDs had a technical problem - one of their authoritative name servers served stale data. This is a tale of monitoring, anycast, and debugging.

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War Story: RPKI is Working as Intended

War Story: RPKI is Working as Intended

Job Snijders

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Three weeks ago, Fastly was the target of a BGP hijack similar to a far more widely-reported incident that happened back in 2008. But this time, barely anyone noticed. Why is that?

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