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Anycast Latency: How Many Sites are Enough?

Anycast Latency: How Many Sites are Enough?

JH Kuipers

4 min read

IP anycast is a popular way to scale up and distribute services across the Internet, with the aim of getting closer to end users. Using anycast, the IP address of a service is available in multiple places on the Internet — so-called anycast instances or sites — and Internet routing defines which in…

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Results of the DNS Measurements Hackathon

Results of the DNS Measurements Hackathon

Vesna Manojlovic

11 min read

Reporting from the hackathon is difficult: the spirit of the event lies in direct participation and shared experiences. In this article, we celebrate the achievements of the fifth RIPE NCC hackathon, document and promote results, and create a memento for participants.

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Turning on Anycast on B-Root

Turning on Anycast on B-Root

Giovane Moura

6 min read

The B-root operators have announced that they would enable IP anycast on 1 May 2017 [1]. In this article, we show how that change has been perceived by the RIPE Atlas probes, and if there were any transient effects of this change.

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RIPE NCC Technical Services 2017 - Part Three: Focus on Tools and Research

RIPE NCC Technical Services 2017 - Part Three: Focus on Tools and Research

Kaveh Ranjbar

11 min read

Please find below the third part of our technical services update. This time we're focusing on our research activities and a number of tools we are developing.

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BBR TCP

BBR TCP

Geoff Huston

25 min read

The Internet was built using an architectural principle of a simple network and agile edges. The basic approach was to assume that the network is a simple collection of buffered switches and circuits. As packets traverse the network they are effectively passed from switch to switch.

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Focus on Hungary - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Focus on Hungary - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Fergal Cunningham

10 min read

In this article, we take a look at what the RIPE NCC's data shows us about Hungary in terms of membership development, IPv6 deployment, RIPE Atlas coverage and other factors that we compare to neighbouring countries.

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 RIPE NCC Technical Services 2017 - Part Two: Focus on DNS

RIPE NCC Technical Services 2017 - Part Two: Focus on DNS

Kaveh Ranjbar

8 min read

This is the second part of the technical services update. In this article we're focusing on our DNS services: providing reverse DNS; providing secondary services for ccTLDs; and maintaining K-root.

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RIPE NCC Technical Services 2017 - Part One: Focus on RIPE Atlas

RIPE NCC Technical Services 2017 - Part One: Focus on RIPE Atlas

Kaveh Ranjbar

11 min read

In 2013 and 2015 we provided high-level reports on the status of our plans for our technical services and tools. It is time for an update. In this first article we will focus on RIPE Atlas.

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IPv6 RIPEness Through the Years

IPv6 RIPEness Through the Years

Rene Wilhelm

5 min read

In 2010, we introduced IPv6 RIPEness to recognise Local Internet Registries (LIRs) in the RIPE NCC service region that had begun deploying IPv6. Seven years later, we looked at how the IPv6 RIPEness level of the RIPE NCC membership evolved over time.

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Focus on Oman - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Focus on Oman - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Fergal Cunningham

10 min read

Oman is the location for MENOG 17 this April. So we take the opportunity to see how things looks in the Sultanate and compare it to other countries in the region.

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