• 6 min read
We're steadily expanding the capacity of our Authoritative DNS (AuthDNS) cluster to ensure it keeps providing resilient and speedy service. Here's a look at what the cluster does and the steps we're taking towards its expansion.
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
I wrote the articles collected here during my time as community builder of the RIPE NCC and the maintainer and editor of RIPE Labs. I have since taken on a new role serving as the Chair of the RIPE Community. You can reach my new profile via the website link … More
• 3 min read
Olamide Omolola and Tobias Fiebig are studying the degree to which email systems are configured securely. And they need your help: they want to receive emails from as many different mail providers around the world as possible.
Based in Berlin - Germany
Clemens studies Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin and works at the Internet Technologies research lab, advised by Matthias Wählisch. He likes to understand BGP deployment by designing and conducting active and passive measurements. His most recent work focuses on understanding BGP Churn. More
• 9 min read
BGP Route Flap Damping (RFD) and its use has been a controversial topic in the past. Recommendations have been revised multiple times over the past two decades and still differ from vendor default values. In this article we dive into how we measured Route Flap Damping in the real-world, uncover whi…
Based in Madrid, Spain
I love the Internet. I spend my days working as a Sr Researcher APNIC, co-organising ESNOG, getting stuff done as President of ISOC-ES, co-chairing the RIPE DNS WG and participating in the DNS root signing process as a TCR More
• 10 min read
Looking at the DNS, it appears that working from home is largely over for most parts of the world.
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
I wrote the articles collected here during my time as community builder of the RIPE NCC and the maintainer and editor of RIPE Labs. I have since taken on a new role serving as the Chair of the RIPE Community. You can reach my new profile via the website link … More
• 7 min read
Kim Davies, President of PTI and Vice President of IANA Services for ICANN describes recent and new challenges when managing the DNS trust anchor.
Rene Wilhelm is a senior research engineer in the R&D department at the RIPE NCC. Coming from a background in particle physics, Rene joined the RIPE NCC in 1996. His interests are in data analysis, routing, Internet measurements and visualisation. More
• 13 min read
Following up on earlier research, we're looking at IPv6 adoption statistics provided by various organisations once again. How far do they match, and if not, why not?
• 8 min read
This article describes a newly discovered DNS protocol vulnerability that affects most recursive DNS resolvers. NXNSAttack allows the execution of random subdomain attacks using the DNS delegation mechanism, resulting in a big packet amplification factor.
Based in The Netherlands
Network Security Research Engineer at SIDN Labs, the research arm of SIDN, the .nl registry. I work on security and Internet measurement research projects. More
• 5 min read
DNS operators have very few intelligent real-time tools that enable them to monitor their anycast services, for instance during a DDoS attack. In this post, we describe the challenges associated with measuring anycast services and propose a tool called the BGP Tuner. By using our open-source tool, …
Suzanne Taylor is a Public Policy & Internet Governance Consultant. In her work with the RIPE NCC, she has engaged with a broad range of Internet stakeholders including the RIPE NCC membership, governments, law enforcement and intergovernmental organisations. From 2012 to 2016, she worked in communications at the RIPE NCC … More
• 11 min read
This is the fourth in an ongoing series in which we give a brief overview of the most pertinent digital policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union.
I am the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the RIPE NCC, overseeing IT engineering, DNS, Internet measurement services—including RIPEstat, RIS and Atlas—and software development, which encompasses the RIPE Database, LIR Portal, and RPKI. I joined the RIPE NCC in 2012 as a Software Engineer and have since held various roles … More
• 8 min read
With RPKI experiencing a huge growth in its deployment and becoming a key part in the operations of the Internet, we have been investing a significant amount of resources in making its infrastructure resilient, secure, and highly available. Recent outages have raised concerns about the maturity lev…
