Steering hyper-giants’ traffic at scale
Guest Post: New traffic engineering system, FlowDirector, reduces traffic overheads for large CDNs on long-haul links by 15%.
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Why dynamic DNS mapping prevents DNSSEC deployment
Guest Post: Study looks at why DNSSEC deployment remains so slow (and hard) in CDNs.
Traffic analysis still possible when using DoT and DoH
Guest Post: Study seeks to measure the effectiveness of encrypting the DNS for the purpose of privacy.
Is RPKI ready for the big screen?
Guest Post: Results from the first comprehensive, longitudinal study of the deployment and quality of RPKI.
RSS++: a new model for elastic high-speed networking
Guest Post: New load-balancing technique shown to spread load across CPU cores in a more optimal way.
Modelling BBR’s interactions with loss-based congestion control
Guest Post: While BBR is supposed to be a rate-based algorithm, when competing with other flows, BBR is window-limited.
Bufferbloat may be solved, but it’s not over yet
Dave Täht recounted the story of bufferbloat and the deployment challenges ahead.
Addressing 2019
Geoff Huston analyzes the trends in IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2019 and makes some predictions about what the future holds.
Hack your IPv6 enterprise network to deploy it securely!
Guest Post: New app assists with securely deploying IPv6 on Ethernet LANs.
SHA-1 chosen prefix collisions and DNSSEC
Guest Post: The SHAmbles prefix collision attack against SHA-1 offers a new way for attackers to spook the DNS despite DNSSEC.