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Improvements to the RIPE Atlas Datasets on Google BigQuery

Improvements to the RIPE Atlas Datasets on Google BigQuery

Stephen Strowes

7 min read

We've been using Google's BigQuery platform for ongoing operational tasks and research questions, and we've got a little more experience under our belts. We're improving the ways we expose public data on the platform.

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Now There's an Idea - Research Pitches from Our R&D Team

Now There's an Idea - Research Pitches from Our R&D Team

Robert Kisteleki

8 min read

One of the tasks of the R&D team here at the RIPE NCC is to come up with, evaluate, and execute new ideas for research topics and tools that can be of good use to the community. In this article, we're starting an experiment to expose some of these ideas to the community, in order to find interested…

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Surrounded by the Clouds: A Comprehensive Cloud Reachability Study

Surrounded by the Clouds: A Comprehensive Cloud Reachability Study

Lorenzo Corneo

10 min read

In our cloud reachability study, we performed extensive global client-to-cloud latency measurements towards 189 datacenters from nine major cloud providers using 8,000+ RIPE Atlas probes. Our goal was to evaluate the suitability of modern cloud environments for latency-sensitive applications. Here,…

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New Look for the RIPE Database and LIR Portal

New Look for the RIPE Database and LIR Portal

Theodoros Polychniatis

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Following RIPE Atlas, RIPE NCC Access and RIPE Labs, the RIPE Database and LIR Portal have been redesigned to match our new UI template for RIPE NCC services.

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An Eventful Ten Years in RIPEstat

An Eventful Ten Years in RIPEstat

Alun Davies

6 min read

Since its inception, RIPEstat has been helping network operators and end users monitor the state of the Internet. Ten years on, we look back at some of the ways RIPEstat enabled us to get a clearer picture of how the Internet fared in the event of outages, blackouts, natural disasters, and Nyan Cat.

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Does The Internet Route Around Damage? - Edition 2021

Does The Internet Route Around Damage? - Edition 2021

Emile Aben

7 min read

On 23 March 2021, LINX London experienced an outage. As this is one of the very large Internet Exchange Points, this is an interesting case to study in more depth in order to see what we can learn about Internet robustness.

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Measuring DNS over TLS from the Edge: Adoption, Reliability and Response Times

Measuring DNS over TLS from the Edge: Adoption, Reliability and Response Times

Trinh Viet Doan

9 min read

DNS over TLS (DoT) is an extension to the DNS over UDP/53 (Do53) protocol, which provides additional confidentiality to the DNS messages between client and server. Since its standardisation in RFC7858 in 2016, DoT has gained increasing support by various DNS services as well as operating systems. …

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Splitting the Ping

Splitting the Ping

Ben Cartwright-Cox

12 min read

Pings provide a simple measure of how long it takes to get there and back across the Internet. What's not so simple is working out how long the trip there took versus the trip back. In this guest post, Ben Cox introduces a method for splitting the ping.

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Trufflehunter: A New Tool to Sniff Out DNS Usage

Trufflehunter: A New Tool to Sniff Out DNS Usage

Audrey Randall

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Measuring domain usage on centralised public DNS resolvers can be very useful, but it's also pretty hard to do. Trufflehunter is a new open source tool that puts snooping techniques to good use in order to accurately estimate the popularity of domains.

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