Passive observations of a large DNS service
Guest Post: Study takes a brief peek at 3.5 billion queries from Google’s public DNS service.
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Chasing Shannon’s limit – submarine cable fibre optic communications
Guest Post: Technology developments such as Coherent Optics have allowed us to get closer to the theoretical transmission capacity of submarine cables.
How to: calculating IPv6 subnets outside the nibble boundary
Guest Post: Learn about the basics of nibble boundaries and how to calculate subnets outside of them.
DNS: A look back at a look back
Guest Post: Looking back on past forecasts for the DNS exposes how far it has evolved from its preliminary tasks.
New ASN management features
APNIC will soon implement an important change to the aut-num object in the APNIC Whois Database.
Discovering evasive code in malicious websites
Guest Post: NTT Secure Platform Laboratories has discovered five previously unknown evasion techniques by using two types of honeyclients.
Treating RPKI ROAs as IRR route(6) objects
Guest Post: Using RPKI ROAs as if they are IRR route(6)-objects is a transitional step towards increased security in the routing ecosystem.
How to: router configuration for connecting to an Internet Exchange
Best practice document assists with configuring routers for connecting to IXes.
Honeypot-based monitoring of amplification DDoS attacks
Guest Post: The SISSDEN project operates a network of honeypots that detect on average around 10,000 amplification DDoS attacks per day.
Monitoring BGP anomalies on the Internet
Guest Post: There are many common sources for BGP anomalies of which network operators should be aware.