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René Wilhelm

René Wilhelm is a System Architect at RIPE NCC. His activies focus on data analysis and research. Rene was involved in the design and roll out of the TTM service and contributed to the RIS project. He also contributes to the RIPE policy development process' impact analyses.

The impact of expanding AuthDNS with a new node in the Philippines

By René Wilhelm on 28 Aug 2025

Guest Post: Recently, the RIPE NCC activated a new AuthDNS node in Makati. What impact did this have on local DNS clients and on the overall AuthDNS system?

Measuring your web server reachability with TCP Ping

By René Wilhelm on 2 Oct 2017

Guest Post: Which is better measuring the connectivity and latency of web servers on the network level, HTTP or TCP Ping?