Technology and Innovation

Measuring Encrypted-DNS Censorship Using OONI Probe

Simone Basso

• 4 Aug 2022

• 13 min read

In this article we talk through the preliminary results of an encrypted-DNS censorship study currently being conducted by the Open Observatory Network Interference (OONI).

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Journeying into XDP Part 2: XDPerimenting with DNS Telemetry

Luuk Hendriks

• 28 Jul 2022

• 16 min read

In this instalment of our Journeying into XDP series, we look into a passive BPF-program that enables us to plot graphs of DNS metrics without altering the DNS packets or touching the DNS software itself.

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Computing Within Limits 2022 Event Wrap

Vesna Manojlovic

• 25 Jul 2022

• 7 min read

Environmental sustainability is a hugely worrisome topic for the Internet industry - and as a Community Builder for the RIPE community, I find it important to engage with the academics and activists who both share our concerns and can contribute in our governance processes. Here is a look back to t…

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Where Did My Packet Go? Measuring the Impact of RPKI ROV

Koen van Hove

• 19 Jul 2022

• 9 min read

Merely doing RPKI ROV does not provide any guarantees where your packet ends up. We conducted an experiment where we look into the impact of RPKI ROV on whether the packet ends up in the intended location based on active beaconing with two servers.

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Stalloris: RPKI Downgrade Attack

Haya Schulmann

• 6 Jul 2022

• 6 min read

Our research considers the impact of malicious publication points on the resilience of RPKI. We explored attacks that target the functionality of the relying party implementations and evaluated the resulting impact on the RPKI validation. We found all the relying party implementations to be vulnera…

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Dealing with the Undercurrent of Unwanted Traffic

Leslie Daigle

• 5 Jul 2022

• 6 min read

It’s common knowledge that there are “bad actors” on the Internet, poking and prodding open ports as they find them. But just how much of this “unwanted traffic” is out there, and how much is “too much” to allow out of a source network?

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Unpacking RFC 9199: Considerations for Large Authoritative Server Operators

Giovane Moura

• 4 Jul 2022

• 10 min read

RFC 9199 puts forward six considerations for large authoritative DNS server operators each derived from peer-reviewed research. Giovane Moura from SIDN Labs walks us through the list of considerations and the experience he and his co-authors had with the RFC process.

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IPv6 10 Years Out: An Analysis in Users, Tables, and Traffic

Rene Wilhelm

• 30 Jun 2022

• 12 min read

On 6 June 2012, the Internet Society organised the World IPv6 Launch. On that day, participants switched on IPv6 not just for testing, but to use permanently in production services. As ten years have passed since, we look at how IPv6 adoption and deployment has progressed, in terms of routing, end-…

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Pavlos Sermpezis: Revealing Bias in Internet Measurements

Alun Davies

• 29 Jun 2022

• 2 min read

Internet measurement platforms give us a clearer understanding of the state of the Internet. But none of these platforms gives us a ‘view from everywhere’, so that understanding will always be based on a partial and potentially biased view of things. In this episode, Pavlos Sermpezis talks about th…

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The Curious Case of Packets From ::

Robert Kisteleki

• 16 May 2022

• 10 min read

RIPE Atlas has a large enough footprint all over the world to observe various kinds of network behaviour. Recently we've been notified about a case where the IPv6 source address ::/128 appeared in some of our traceroutes. We set out to discover why this happens.

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