[Podcast] Night of the BGP zombies
Geoff discusses BGP ‘zombie’ routes — routes that should have been withdrawn but persist in the routing system. He explores how these anomalies might occur and what can be done to address them.
[Podcast] RPKIViews: The archive of RPKI states
Job Snijders discusses his global RPKI validation archive, and the annual ‘state of RPKI’ report he produces.
[Podcast] How many DNS nameservers is enough?
Geoff Huston examines the number of nameservers assigned to domains and the potentially inefficient methods used to select which one is queried.
[Podcast] RISKY BIZ-ness
Gautam Akiwate discusses his prize-winning paper on risks in the DNS supply chain.
First penguin advantage in cryptography?
Deprecating SHA-256, RSA, ECDSA, and ECDH key usage ahead of quantum computing?
Visualizing the scale differences of IPv4 and IPv6
The difference in scale between IPv4 and IPv6 is so vast that it’s difficult to represent clearly. Here’s one way to visualize it.
[Podcast] Post-Quantum Cryptography
Geoff Huston discusses Post-Quantum Cryptography in Internet protocols and the DNS in particular.
New IPv6 address block
APNIC extends its IPv6 resources with a second /12 allocation from IANA.
[Podcast] Measuring DNSSEC keying ‘drift’ between parent and child
An analysis of CDS and CDNSKEY records looking at mismatches between child and parent, and the nameservers for the zone.
Is it bandwidth or latency?
CACM has an entertaining write up on bufferbloat and latency.