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Last Sponsored RIPE Atlas Anchors for 2017

Last Sponsored RIPE Atlas Anchors for 2017

Alun Davies

4 min read

The RIPE NCC's 2017 campaign to sponsor fifteen RIPE Atlas anchors has come to an end. Find out where the latest batch of sponsored anchors are located and learn more about some of the developments that took place in the last leg of the campaign.

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RIPE Atlas on the Go

RIPE Atlas on the Go

Ollivier Robert

4 min read

I am a fan of Go (the programming language) and RIPE Atlas. It took me a while, but I just released a tool that provides access to the RIPE Atlas API in Go.

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Verfploeter: Broad and Load-aware Anycast Mapping

Verfploeter: Broad and Load-aware Anycast Mapping

Wouter de Vries

3 min read

IP anycast provides DNS operators and CDNs with automatic fail-over and reduced latency by breaking the Internet into catchments, each served by a different anycast site.

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Impressions from the Internet Measurement Conference 2017

Impressions from the Internet Measurement Conference 2017

Emile Aben

6 min read

This year's Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) was held in London from 1 - 3 November. In this article we highlight some of the presented work that we think is interesting and that the RIPE community might find useful.

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Report from First RIPE NCC::Educa Event

Report from First RIPE NCC::Educa Event

Sandra Brás

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On the 5 October 2017 we launched our very first RIPE NCC::Educa event. It turned out to be quite a success. Here's a summary and some plans for next year.

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Transit and Peering: How Your Requests Reach GitHub

Transit and Peering: How Your Requests Reach GitHub

Ross McFarland

7 min read

Please find in this article insights into solutions that mid-size organisations need to deploy on the DNS and BGP level. We are monitoring success using, among other tools, RIPE Atlas.

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A Software-based Approach to Identify Heavy Hitters in DNS Traffic

A Software-based Approach to Identify Heavy Hitters in DNS Traffic

Santiago Ruano Rincón

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This article presents a software-based prototype able to estimate the most queried domain names in a stream of DNS traffic at 12Mpps (wire-rate 10GbE). The goal is to identify domains involved in random qname attacks. This prototype is a proof-of-concept of our research on software and commodity-ha…

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RIPE Atlas Probes as IoT Devices

RIPE Atlas Probes as IoT Devices

Robert Kisteleki

7 min read

It's possible to look at RIPE Atlas probes from the perspective of IoT - a key element of the service is the physical devices deployed all over the world. Read on to find some interesting insights from this perspective.

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Insights from RIPE Atlas Probe Disconnections

Insights from RIPE Atlas Probe Disconnections

Emile Aben

4 min read

There are all kinds of reasons why RIPE Atlas probes might become disconnected. So, even though we'd like all probes to be connected all the time, disconnects can also tell us a useful story.

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Current Network Connectivity from Puerto Rico

Current Network Connectivity from Puerto Rico

Stephen Strowes

6 min read

Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck massive damage across the Caribbean this year. In disaster recovery situations, the Internet is critical communications infrastructure. In this article, we look at the observable network effects on Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricane Maria.

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