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Exploring RIPE Atlas Traceroutes from 2012 to 2019

Exploring RIPE Atlas Traceroutes from 2012 to 2019

Nevil Brownlee

29 min read

This analysis of RIPE Atlas traceroutes for days in 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2019 displays full network graphs for each successive half-hour and develops an algorithm for finding node or edge outages of an hour or more.

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Some Handy ROA Advice from Randy Bush

Some Handy ROA Advice from Randy Bush

George Michaelson

7 min read

Simple yet crucial ways to ensure your ROAs are functioning as they should.

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Docker IPv6 Networking, Routing, and NDP Proxying

Docker IPv6 Networking, Routing, and NDP Proxying

Cameron Steel

7 min read

Networking in Docker comes with challenges, but IPv6’s abundance of addresses holds some solutions.

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RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Mediterranean Europe

RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Mediterranean Europe

Suzanne Taylor

3 min read

We take a comprehensive look at five different countries in Mediterranean Europe as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Internet Country Reports.

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Ping and Traceroute

Ping and Traceroute

George Michaelson

16 min read

What are ping and traceroute, really? They’re part of the control plane, and the data plane, kind of…

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ERRANT: Realistic Emulation of Radio Access Networks

ERRANT: Realistic Emulation of Radio Access Networks

Danilo Giordano

5 min read

Mobile networks have become ubiquitous, offering connectivity performance from slow connections up to speeds comparable with broadband connections. Having tools to emulate such variability correctly is paramount to test new protocols and applications before publicly releasing them.

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Fragmentation, Truncation, and Timeouts: Are Large DNS Messages Falling to Bits?

Fragmentation, Truncation, and Timeouts: Are Large DNS Messages Falling to Bits?

Giovane Moura

9 min read

How much of a problem are large DNS responses over UDP in the wild?

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IPv6 Adoption in 2021

IPv6 Adoption in 2021

Stephen Strowes

8 min read

As part of our ongoing efforts to chart the rise and rise of IPv6, we’ve been looking into the difference between average IPv6 capability per country over a few days in June 2020 versus the most recent similar averages for 2021.

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A Tour of the New RIPEstat UI

A Tour of the New RIPEstat UI

Stephen Suess

8 min read

The new RIPEstat UI brings big changes to the look and feel of RIPEstat. It presents an updated, clean, responsive design built on a modern framework and comes equipped with a whole host of new features. In this article, we explore all these features and improvements.

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NetForecast Uses RIPE Atlas to Perform Network Latency Benchmarking

NetForecast Uses RIPE Atlas to Perform Network Latency Benchmarking

Alan Jones

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The NetForecast 2020 Internet Latency Benchmark Report scores and ranks Internet latency performance across major US cities and ISPs. Drawing on RIPE Atlas, the report provides a “user's eye” perspective on performance in terms of latency, latency consistency, and near/far latency bias.

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