Meta-Peering: Towards automated ISP peering
Guest Post: New tool automates the peer selection process and suggests possible Points of Presence according to ISP specific criteria.
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AnyOpt: Predicting and optimizing IP anycast performance
Guest Post: New anycast technique reduces average RTT between clients and anycast servers by 43.4%.
Should information flows be controlled by the Internet plumbers?
Guest Post: Big companies have made decisions to moderate content that is clearly out of their scope as infrastructure intermediaries. It begs the question — why?
More notes from IETF 112
Geoff Huston on currently active IETF routing security, IPv6, and transport discussions.
Notes from DINR 2021
Presentations at DINR 2021 demonstrated a world of detail and complexity in current DNS research.
Insights from operating an IP Exchange Provider
Guest Post: Study provides first analysis into the operations of a real-world IP Exchange Provider with a large platform serving customers in 19 economies.
DNS at IETF 112
Geoff Huston on currently active IETF DNS discussion.
Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible
Guest Post: Study finds more than 40 STARTTLS-related security flaws in many different software products, both client-side and server-side.
The who’s who of whois clients
There are many different clients you can use for whois lookups. Are they any good?
OSPFv3: Building the topology
Guest Post: How to build a network topology from the content of the LSDB using OSPFv3 and IPv6.