From the stupid DNS tricks department: ipasn.net
A trick that lets you map an IP address to an ASN without preprocessing any data.
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From roots to reach: Network resilience in natural disasters
Guest Post: AZIZA demonstrates how networking research can build systems that remain meaningful when continuity disappears.
NetGent: Agent-based automation of network application workflows
Guest Post: NetGent is a deterministic, UI-agnostic workflow engine for generating consistent application traffic at scale, even as interfaces change.
[Podcast] BGP in review for 2025
Geoff Huston discusses BGP trends in 2025 and how they may reshape our understanding of BGP’s place in the Internet’s technology adoption curve.
Thousands of LEO satellites won’t save us (but good regulation will)
Guest Post: This post explores how different economies approach LEO satellite regulation, why these choices matter, and what a balanced, future-proof framework should look like.
Centralized or distributed? Understanding modern router and AI fabric architectures
Guest Post: How distributed forwarding and modern data plane architectures enable routers and AI fabrics to scale reliably and handle massive workloads without single points of failure.
Towards understanding city-level routing using BGP location communities
Guest Post: An inference method that exploits the spatial correlation between a network prefix’s origin, and the location of the router that attaches a location community.
IP address to organization name map
Mapping Internet number resources from IP addresses to organizations is straightforward using whois or RDAP, but listing all resources held by a given organization is far more challenging. This post explores a simpler, data-driven approach using RIR extended statistics and reg-id identifiers.
RSCs are now supported in MyAPNIC
MyAPNIC now supports RPKI Signed Checklists (RSCs), providing Members with a new way to cryptographically sign and verify documents using their RPKI resources. Your feedback is welcome.
[Podcast] NITK Students at IETF: Fresh minds for standards development
Two groups of students from NITK discuss the work they did at the IETF 122 Bangkok hackathon, and afterwards in their WG. Professor Mohit Taliani is seeking to encourage new entrants to join IETF protocol and standards development.