Look up!
Geoff Huston examines the potential of new satellite Internet projects that promise to offer high-speed, low-cost Internet services to rival fibre.
The Root of the DNS
Geoff discusses how the DNS and root servers function and provides some suggestions for the infrastructure to continue to be robust, scalable and accurate..
NANOG 69: IoT and Security?
Peering trends, traffic policing and the security issues with the Internet of (Maliciously Stupid Trash) Things among the topics of discussion at NANOG 69.
Addressing in 2016
What changed in Internet addressing in 2016? Geoff Huston examines the numbers and trends.
BGP in 2016
Geoff Huston analyses BGP trends for 2016 and offers his predictions for IPv4 and IPv6 BGP tables sizes for the next five years.
Let’s Encrypt with DANE
Domain Name certificates used to be expensive. In this post, I’ll walk through the process of setting up good, inexpensive and accessible DNS security using several public tools.
Leaving it to the Last Second
The last minute of 2016 will be 61 seconds long. Geoff explains why it matters.
Scoring the DNS Root Server System, Pt 2 – A Sixth Star?
Geoff takes a second look at the DNS Root Servers, this time scoring them on the ability to handle large UDP responses over IPv6.
Takeaways from RIPE 73
Geoff Huston shares his thoughts on several presentations from the recent RIPE 73 meeting.
Scoring the DNS Root Server System
Geoff takes a look at the DNS Root Servers and gives some scores on how well they can cope with large responses.