Building your own Fibre-to-Premises Network: The ECFiber Story
Guest Post: George Sadowsky outlines how to build and operate a FTTH network when existing infrastructure, topography, and low population all work against the need for fast Internet.
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Tech matters
RIPE’s RPKI Validator is being phased out, so what are the other options?
There are plenty of alternatives for RPKI validation.
New RDAP profile to improve cross-RIR consistency
The NRO recently registered an RDAP profile with IANA for the RIR community.
An analysis of a large-scale HTTPS interception
Guest Post: An investigation into an HTTPS interception attack using a custom root CA.
Towards verifying programmable switches at runtime with P6
Guest Post: Bugs can occur at any stage in the P4 pipeline. Static analysis can be hit and miss — so researchers developed P6.
Notes from DNS-OARC 34
Geoff Huston shares his thoughts from the recent DNS-OARC 34.
DoH the right thing
Opinion: The NSA recently issued some advice on DoH. It wasn’t necessarily bad advice, but it was not well received.
How To: Run Krill behind an NGINX reverse proxy
Guest Post: Krill has a built-in HTTPS server but you can also run a production grade webserver as a reverse proxy for easy TLS configuration and additional restrictions.
IPv6 in 2020
Did the COVID-19 pandemic have any impact on the deployment and use of IPv6?
BGP, RPKI, and MANRS: 2020 in review
Guest Post: 2020 was a year of reckoning, when many network operators started taking action to protect the global routing table.