Speculating on DNS DDoS
What can be done to mitigate attacks on the DNS?
My take on NANOG 68
Geoff Huston shares his thoughts on several presentations that caught his eye at the recent North America Network Operators Group meeting.
IPv6 and the DNS
How much of the DNS resolution infrastructure is IPv6 capable?
DNSSEC and ECDSA
Two years ago I reported on the use of the elliptical curve cryptographic algorithm in generating digital signatures for DNSSEC. Let’s see what’s changed over the past 24 months.
DDoS attackers – who and why?
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are on the increase. But what are the motivations of the attackers?
IPv6 Performance – Revisited
APNIC Labs has a new reporting tool that can show the performance of IPv6 relative to IPv4 at both a country-by-country level and a network-by-network level.
My thoughts from IETF 96
Geoff Huston shares his impressions from sessions he attended at IETF 96, Berlin.
One Second Warning
Have you considered this year’s leap second to be scheduled for midnight UTC 31 December 2016?
Hosts vs Networks
Two BoF sessions at IETF 96 discussed the merits of using UDP as an end-to-end transport service substrate – with different reactions.
Open season
Geoff Huston looks to make sense of what an “Open Internet” means in today’s world.