Addressing 2020
Geoff Huston reports on IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2020 and makes some predictions for the future.
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Tech matters
Public Internet vs Non-public Internet
Guest Post: How do cloud networks affect the services that RIRs provide?
How critical are submarine cables to end-users?
Guest Post: A common assumption is that popular resources tend to be hosted locally, and submarine cables are for backend traffic. Is this accurate?
China Telecom’s IPv6 efforts are beginning to show in the numbers
An IPv6 deployment that began with a series of relatively isolated IPv6 metro area networks (MANs) has begun to take off.
Developing new metrics for tracking IMRS traffic
A recent study examines new metrics that could passively track traffic to ICANN managed root servers.
New tool to sniff out DNS usage
Guest post: A new tool that uses DNS cache snooping on public DNS resolvers to measure the prevalence of rare applications and domains on the Internet.
BeauCoup: Answering many network traffic queries, one memory update at a time
Guest Post: Running multiple heterogeneous network monitoring queries at line rate is challenging, but it can be achieved with ‘coupon collectors’.
BGP in 2020 — BGP Update Churn
Part two of Geoff Huston’s 2020 BGP report investigates whether the stability of the routing system is changing.
BGP in 2020 – The BGP Table
Geoff Huston analyses recent and historical BGP routing table growth and forecasts IPv4 and IPv6 BGP routing table growth for the next five years.
Three of the best: How to
Check out the three best ‘How to’ guides from the blog in 2020.