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New RIPE Atlas Root Zone DNS Measurements

New RIPE Atlas Root Zone DNS Measurements

Chris Amin

2 min read

Two new DNS measurements, both designed to assess the impact of issues with one or more root name servers, have been added to every RIPE Atlas probe.

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Bugfixing IPv6 Deployment Statistics

Bugfixing IPv6 Deployment Statistics

Emile Aben

4 min read

We found a bug in a dataset that we've been producing for years.

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Update on RIPE Atlas Probe Lifetimes

Update on RIPE Atlas Probe Lifetimes

Rene Wilhelm

11 min read

Six months have passed since we last reported on the status of RIPE Atlas probe connections. Time for an update.

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Ethics in Network Measurements

Ethics in Network Measurements

Mirjam Kühne

6 min read

For the 2017 edition of the Free and Open Software event FOSDEM, our Community Builder Vesna Manojlovic gave an interview about moral obligations of engineers, scientists and hackers, based on the example of RIPE Atlas.

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Campaign to Sponsor 15 RIPE Atlas Anchors

Campaign to Sponsor 15 RIPE Atlas Anchors

Alun Davies

4 min read

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring 15 new RIPE Atlas anchors in 2017. This article provides details about the campaign and introduces the criteria that will be used to decide which applicants will receive sponsorship.

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Using RIPE Atlas to Validate International Routing Detours

Using RIPE Atlas to Validate International Routing Detours

Anant Shah

12 min read

International routing detours are paths that originate in one country, visit another country and return to the original country. Such circuitous routes could occur due to intentional traffic engineering, lack of local peering, BGP misconfigurations, or even attacks. Detecting such events helps n…

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BGP in 2016

BGP in 2016

Geoff Huston

34 min read

It has become either a tradition or a habit for me that, each January, I report on the experience with the inter-domain routing system over the past year; looking in some detail at metrics from the routing system that can show the essential shape and behaviour of the underlying interconnection fabr…

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DNS Measurements Hackathon 2017

DNS Measurements Hackathon 2017

Alun Davies

7 min read

The RIPE NCC's fifth hackathon event will happen in Amsterdam, in April 2017. We would like to invite operators, designers, researchers and developers to take on the challenge and join us in developing new tools and visualisations for DNS measurements.

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New Feature: Easily Embed your RIPEstat Widgets in RIPE Labs Articles

New Feature: Easily Embed your RIPEstat Widgets in RIPE Labs Articles

Mirjam Kühne

2 min read

It is now easier to embed a RIPEstat widget into your RIPE Labs articles. You can use RIPEstat widgets to show visualisations about IP address space, Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs), and related information for hostnames and countries.

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Reviewing the 2016 Leap Second

Reviewing the 2016 Leap Second

Stephen Strowes

9 min read

Last month we covered the 2015 leap second ahead of the insertion of a leap second at the very end of 2016. As stated previously, leap seconds can trigger poorly-tested code paths; leap second handling always unearths bugs and issues. This one was no exception!

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