Building resilient self hosted services is not always easy
Resiliency through more redundancy is important no matter the scenario.
[Podcast] Measuring the impact of locally served root zone
An analysis of the traffic impacts of locally served root zones, by Ilyas Rahimi at UvA.
The lingering legacy of ‘reserved’ ports
Modern service discovery mechanisms increasingly allow services to run on arbitrary ports, yet DNS may remain the one protocol that cannot fully escape its dependency on the long-established convention of port 53.
The emerging role of AI in governance discussion
A growing debate within the IETF is exploring how AI-generated content should be used and disclosed in standards discussions.
[Podcast] DNS cold start
Geoff Huston discusses the unexpected behaviours of the DNS when you perform a query after ‘cold start’ with no cached data.
[Podcast] Canonical Cache Representation
Job Snijders discusses a new, compact representation of RPKI-signed objects and an archive of spooled snapshots of the global RPKI repositories.
Hooray for the sockets interface
In 1983, BSD 4.2 introduced sockets, treating network communication like file I/O. This simplification sped UNIX adoption of shared protocols and services, marking a key turning point in modern networking.
[Podcast] DNS query duplication
Why does APNIC Labs experimental systems see almost all DNS queries twice or more?
Life on the Internet adoption curve
The technology adoption curve has not changed, our position on it has. As the Internet and BGP move into later stages of adoption, rapid growth is giving way to saturation, changing how we plan, invest, and operate.
[Podcast] Testing RSSAC 028 DNS root server name choices
A measurement study of how the DNS bootstrap priming query behaves when the root servers are renamed and DNSSEC signatures are added.