Why inter-domain multicast now makes sense
Guest Post: A group within the IETF think the time has come to give inter-domain multicast another try.
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Tech matters
Easy BGP Monitoring with BGPalerter
Guest Post: BGPalerter is an open source and self-contained tool that can be used for BGP monitoring.
Taking a closer look at the NTP pool using DNS data
Guest Post: About 3% of the domain names requested by the NTP pool are invalid, and almost all the invalid domain names have never provided time synchronization services.
Taking a look under the ISP bonnet
Guest Post: In many ways, running an ISP router is very similar to running a car.
A first look at the misuse and abuse of the IPv4 transfer market
Guest Post: First-of-its-kind study finds that transferred /24 sub-prefixes are six times more likely to be blacklisted compared to non-transferred prefixes.
A look at Route Flap Damping in the wild
Guest Post: Project seeks to understand how widely RFD is deployed and how it’s being configured.
IPv6 and the DNS
How is IPv6 being used as a transport protocol for DNS queries?
Networking from Home heads East
Networking from Home rotated to East Asia for its second last outing for 2020.
Identifying malicious IoT botnet activity using graph theory
Beating IoT botnets means spotting them first — graph theory research can help.
Understanding the landscape around network automation
Guest Post: Automation should not necessarily be seen as competition for network engineers but another tool in their toolbox.