Develop your own mini-Internet to teach students virtually about network operations
Guest Post: Open-source project allows you to build a virtual mini-Internet to put students in the shoes of a network operator.
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Tech matters
What’s in a name?
Guest Post: Names sent through to the DNS contain a wide variety of names from many applications, typos and strings of seemingly random letters.
Rise of the invalids
Why are the number of invalid routes increasing at the same time as the number of valid routes?
Telstra AS1221 strengthens its BGP security with RPKI implementation
Telstra AS1221 has announced it has signed ROAs for its prefixes and plans to start monitoring invalids by June 2020.
Local awareness and assistance is key to RPKI success
Guest Post: The number of valid RPKI ROAs in Bangladesh has increased by 150% in the past 6 months thanks to a community led local awareness campaign.
The wrong certificate: Apache, Let’s Encrypt and OpenSSL
Geoff Huston shares some PKI config issues experienced when migrating labs.apnic.net to a new platform.
Validating RPKI validators
Guest Post: Not every RPKI validator is the same.
Security improvements to APNIC websites
APNIC will be rolling out changes to improve the security and privacy of all encrypted web services.
Community comes together to make deploying RPKI easier
RPKI deployment has become easier thanks to participants at the RPKI Deployathon held at APRICOT 2020.
CDNs and cloud providers join MANRS to improve routing security
Guest Post: New programme provides CDNs and cloud providers an opportunity to demonstrate attention to security and sustainability.