[Podcast] Quad9 — Measurement in the privacy-preserving public DNS service
Darren Kara discusses how the Quad9 Public DNS server balances privacy, measurement, and global threat intelligence to help protect users from malicious destinations.
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Global Internet infrastructure at NANOG 98
Hyperscaler investment in submarine cables and the rise of LEO satellite systems are reshaping who builds, owns, and operates the networks that underpin global connectivity.
The EVPN trust challenge: How to detect and contain internal MAC hijacks
Guest Post: EVPN MAC mobility enables seamless workload movement, but it can also amplify the impact of MAC spoofing. A forged MAC address can redirect traffic across the fabric through BGP, making access-layer controls, route-reflector visibility, and MAC-move monitoring critical defences.
APRICOT 2027 Call for Presentations is open now
If you have interesting Internet operations research or experience to share, submit a presentation for APRICOT 2027. Submissions close on 25 January 2027.
One week on the APNIC honeynet: 99,000 IP addresses and 173 million events
Nearly 99,000 unique IP addresses interacted with APNIC’s honeynet in just one week, generating 173 million events across SSH, Telnet, SMB, VPN, web, and Android services. The results show that long-known botnets, weak credentials, and unpatched vulnerabilities continue to drive large-scale malicious activity across the Internet.
Your most pressing questions about ASPA, answered
Answering some of the most frequently asked questions about ASPA.
Turning IPv6 tunnels into programmable delay lines for pulsing DoS
Guest Post: TED shows how permissive tunnel decapsulation and inconsistent IPv6 Extension Header handling can focus low-rate traffic into short, high-rate bursts.
Rolling the root key: What happened?
The DNS root key was rolled on 11 October 2026. Was the key roll a success?
Being connected is not enough: Territorial inequalities in fixed-Internet access and performance
Guest Post: High aggregate Internet penetration can mask significant territorial inequalities. Using the Dominican Republic as a case study, this analysis shows that access and network performance vary widely across provinces, highlighting why the digital divide is about more than simply being connected.
INNOG 9 at APNIC 62: Building resilient infrastructure for the next Internet
INNOG 9, co-located with APNIC 62, offered a distinctly operational perspective, drawing on experiences from India and Bangladesh. Topics ranged from IPv6 deployment and submarine cable infrastructure, to lessons learned from Internet disruptions.