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When Does World IPv6 Day Start?

When Does World IPv6 Day Start?

Emile Aben

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World IPv6 Day is on 8 June 2011. On this day, a lot of organisations, including some of the most popular ones like Google, Yahoo and Facebook, are going to provide IPv6 addresses for AAAA queries for their websites. This will make content available over IPv6 for one full day. Since DNS responses a…

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World IPv6 Day - IPv6 Eye Chart

World IPv6 Day - IPv6 Eye Chart

Emile Aben

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The RIPE NCC is doing some measurements for World IPv6 Day. One of them is the IPv6 eye chart, a web page that allows you to test your connectivity to selected dual-stacked web sites and World IPv6 participants. The goal is to see if an end user has connectivity problems to dual-stacked websites. T…

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RIPE Atlas - First Results

RIPE Atlas - First Results

Robert Kisteleki

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Since the first RIPE Atlas probes we handed out at the RIPE Meeting in Rome in November 2010, a lot of progress has been made. There is a lot of interest in these probes and in the measurement results. We were happy to see that we surpassed our original goals quite quickly. Now the number of probes…

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RIPE NCC Measurements for World IPv6 Day

RIPE NCC Measurements for World IPv6 Day

Emile Aben

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As announced earlier, the RIPE NCC is going to measure World IPv6 Day. This article details the measurements we intend to do.

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Using the ‘Maximum Length’ Option in ROAs

Using the ‘Maximum Length’ Option in ROAs

Alex Band

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In the resource certification system you specify your routing policy via Route Origin Authorization (ROA) objects. One of the options you can set is the ‘Maximum Length’, which specifies the maximum length of an IP address prefix that the AS is authorised to advertise. In this article we will analy…

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Resource Certification Statistics

Resource Certification Statistics

Alex Band

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Since we started providing the certification service on 1 January 2011, many LIRs made use of the service. In this article you can see some graphs showing the number of certificates in place today, as well as certified address space.

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Unsolicited Internet Traffic from Libya

Unsolicited Internet Traffic from Libya

Emile Aben

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Amidst the recent political unrest in the Middle East, researchers have observed significant changes in Internet traffic and connectivity. In this article we tap into a previously unused source of data: unsolicited Internet traffic arriving from Libya. The traffic data we captured shows distinct c…

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