Network Operations

From 80 to 8,000 - The Growth of the RIPE NCC Membership

Mirjam Kühne

• 3 Apr 2012

• 4 min read

The RIPE NCC is 20 years old and it now has over 8,000 members. In this article, we drill down a bit more into the composition of our membership: what industry do RIPE NCC members come from and which countries account for the highest numbers of members and IP resources.

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Growth in IPv6 Capable DNS Infrastructure

Emile Aben

• 19 Mar 2012

• 7 min read

We developed a script to measure IPv6 capabilities of DNS resolvers and clients two years ago. Recently we found some interesting trends in IPv6 capable DNS infrastructure.

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Introducing the IP Analyser

Alex Band

• 12 Mar 2012

• 3 min read

The RIPE NCC is proud to introduce the IP Analyser. This is a brand new service accessible through the LIR Portal that gives our members an insight into their IPv4 and IPv6 allocations and assignments. The ultimate goal is to offer a complete overview of all the IP resources you hold, and inform yo…

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IPv6 Deployment: Trends and Tidbits of 4,800 Dual-stack ASes

Mirjam Kühne

• 7 Mar 2012

• 8 min read

This article is based on a lightning talk Matthew Luckie of CAIDA presented at the recent NANOG 54 meeting of work done in conjunction with Amogh Dhamdhere and Bradley Huffaker. The article is structured around a number of hypotheses about the state of IPv6 deployment and the IPv6 capability of net…

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Networks with IPv6 - One Year Later

Mirjam Kühne

• 5 Mar 2012

• 5 min read

One year after we released the interactive graph to show the percentage of ASes announcing IPv6 prefixes, we looked at the progress made since then.

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Resource Certification (RPKI) Data Quality and Usage

Alex Band

• 23 Feb 2012

• 3 min read

The amount of members requesting a Resource Certificate is steadily climbing, soon reaching 900. What is even more impressive is the amount of routing information these LIRs have entered in the system by creating Route Origin Authorisations (ROAs). But what is the quality of the data and is it used…

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Connectivity to the K-Root Instance in Delhi

Emile Aben

• 20 Feb 2012

• 3 min read

As a follow-up to the previous article and prompted by a question in the mailing list, we looked into connectivity of one particular instance of K-root: the one located in Delhi. India.

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VisualK – Monitoring K-root in Near Real Time

Claudio Squarcella

• 17 Feb 2012

• 6 min read

VisualK is a new tool that allows to visualise the evolution of the service provided by the K-root name server. It can be used to monitor the status of K-root in near real-time.

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IPv4 Address Space Growth per Country

Emile Aben

• 6 Feb 2012

• 5 min read

With the depletion of the IPv4 free pool in the APNIC region and the imminent IPv4 free pool run out in the RIPE NCC's service region, it is interesting to look at IPv4 allocation rates per country to see where free pool run out has and will have the most consequences, in terms of curtailing growth…