Spoofing packets: What is it, and why do people do it?
Spoofed packets allow senders to hide their source address. How do they work and why do they do it?
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Tech matters
Cleaning up your RPKI invalid routes
Fixing your incorrect or outdated ROAs is easy — here’s how.
IPv4 in the headlines
How significant is the advertising of US Department of Defense IPv4 address space?
Some security issues with RPKI and how to fix them
Guest Post: RPKI has many advantages but introduces some security issues. Here’s how we could address them.
A major BGP route leak by AS55410
Guest Post: AS55410 mistakenly announced more than 30,000 BGP prefixes, highlighting the need to implement effective route filtering.
IPv6 fragmentation loss in 2021
Has the situation with fragmented IPv6 packets changed in the past four years?
New update to DASH
A new feature in DASH allows users to receive recurring reports of their network’s top offending IP addresses.
Starlink’s high-speed satellite Internet: What’s the catch?
Low earth orbit satellite-powered Internet could be a game-changer for remote areas, but what happens when people in more populated areas want it?
Anycast performance monitoring with Anteater
Guest Post: The open-source DNS tool Anteater allows real time monitoring of operator infrastructure, using their own traffic.
Skidmap and malicious DNS data mining
Guest Post: Analysing hundreds of billions of daily DNS queries to produce actionable threat intelligence.