Measurements and Statistics

25,000 LIRs - An End to the Milestone Highs?

Rene Wilhelm

• 3 Oct 2019

• 12 min read

Little more than twelve months after we passed the 20,000 active LIRs mark, the number of LIR accounts reached a new milestone on 2 October 2019. As the number of available IPv4 addresses in our pool dropped to 3 million, applications for new LIRs exploded. In July alone, we saw a record number of…

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How to Choose DNS TTL Values

Giovane Moura

• 27 Sep 2019

• 10 min read

There is no consensus on how to choose DNS time-to-live (TTL) values for domain names. Yet, TTLs are incredibly important, given that they indirectly control how long resolvers cache records, directly influencing user experience.

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How Diverse is RIS?

Emile Aben

• 16 Sep 2019

• 8 min read

Is the current set of the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS) peers providing a good level of diverse data? Let's look at some measurement results.

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Measuring the Impact of DNS Flag Day

Willem Toorop

• 23 Aug 2019

• 10 min read

DNS Flag Day was the result of a collaborative effort and agreement of DNS implementers and DNS resolver operators to commit to no longer providing workarounds for non-standards-compliant authoritative nameservers as of 1 February 2019. In the lead up to DNS Flag Day, and as part of the outreach…

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Routing to and from the Netherlands

Marco Hogewoning

• 16 Aug 2019

• 5 min read

Following earlier publications, Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands asked if we could perform an analysis of the Dutch market – in particular, the routing arrangements between networks.

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Analysing Global CDN Performance

Emir Beganović

• 8 Aug 2019

• 16 min read

We investigate commercial CDNs performance by analysing their latency to end-users worldwide.

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Five Years at the Edge: Recording the Evolution of Web Usage from an ISP

Danilo Giordano

• 18 Jul 2019

• 7 min read

While 2018 has no doubt been another big year in the world of the Internet, it often pays to look at how it compares to previous years to understand and forecast growth or decline trends.

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Geopolitics of Routing

LOUIS PETINIAUD

• 17 Jul 2019

• 8 min read

The goal of this article is to introduce a methodological basis for a geopolitical analysis of the Internet and to illustrate the geopolitics of cyberspace. For this purpose, we used the BGP feeds provided by the RIPE Routing Information Service to regularly infer AS-level connectivity graphs. We h…

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Internet Tools BoF Discovers Common Challenges for Network Operators

Sofía Silva Berenguer

• 9 Jul 2019

• 7 min read

At the recent LACNIC 31 meeting, Agustin Formoso (RIPE NCC), Michela Galante (RIPE NCC) and I organised the Internet Tools BoF. Our common goal was to better understand the problems network operators struggle with and determine whether we can assist them by developing new or improved tools. We also…

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Hackathon @ Africa Internet Summit 2019

Willem Toorop

• 8 Jul 2019

• 8 min read

The ISOC African regional bureau has been organising hackathons at the last three editions of the Africa Internet Summit. This year we were given the opportunity to lead a track there at: "Measuring DNS and DoH". This is a report on the event and it's valuable and contributory outcome.

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