Why is a /48 the recommended minimum prefix size for routing?
Proper IPv6 address planning can make network management easier now and in the future.
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Tech matters
A developer’s take on IPv6 and DHCP
Guest Post: Learn how a fascination in IPv6 and a Masters thesis led to Dibbler, DHCPv6 and ultimately, Kea.
Why should I run my own DNS resolver?
Guest Post: There are many benefits for small- to medium-ISPs to run their own DNS resolvers, without much effort.
Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?
Guest Post: How important is compression for achieving the fast startup performance that QUIC promises.
How to: Set up a testbed for validating RPKI/ROA using PMACCT and correlating traffic with BGP
Guest Post: Learn how RPKI can be set up on a testbed with PMACCT to collect and validate RPKI/ROA information.
Why network engineers should code
Guest Post: The growing uptake of SDN is driving the need for network engineers to adapt or be left behind.
New IP and emerging communications technologies
What technologies will play a prominent role in the Internet over the next decade?
RHOMBUS: a new IoT malware
Guest Post: RHOMBUS is a new adaptation of the Mirai codebase with new methodologies to persist and drop different stages and updates, while also backdooring the instance.
NXNSAttack: upgrade resolvers to stop new kind of random subdomain attack
Guest Post: If you operate your own DNS resolver, no matter what brand it is, upgrade it to the latest version now!
Getting IPv6 private addressing right
Guest Post: Unique Local Unicast Addresses are another example of IPv6 being treated similarly as IPv4.