APAN 46 to offer peek into the future of autonomic networking
Internet pioneer Professor Brian Carpenter will present on his recent research in autonomic network management at APAN 46 in Auckland, New Zealand, from 5 to 9 August.
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Caring for fibre optic cables — damaged is worse than broken
Guest Post: Greg Ferro runs us through the basics of fibre optic cabling, and how damaged cables can cause faults.
Shutting down the BGP Hijack Factory
Guest Post: Read how one email to a NOG mailing list led to a concerted effort to kick a notorious BGP hijacker off the Internet.
Source Address Dependent Routing for simple multihoming
Guest Post: Learn how SADR can be simply configured to assist with multihoming.
BGP flexibility and its consequences
Guest Post: Study seeks to determine the scale of BGP hijacking threats by measuring the number of ingress filters bypassed by routing anomalies.
A large-scale lw4o6 deployment for Greek broadband users
Guest Post: Greece’s largest service provider, OTE Group, shares its experiences deploying Lightweight 4over6 to its network.
Hacking through interacting
The recent hackathon at iNOG provided a great environment to develop a prototype AS interdependence visualization (and eat stroopwaffles).
New tools help detect and analyse BGP hijacks
The designers of RTBADT (Real Time BGP Anomaly Detection Tool) used a new technique to detect BGP anomalies in a matter of seconds.
Recursive DNS resolver pools
Guest Post: The concept of resolver pools can be beneficial in improving the performance of DNS resolutions.
lw4o6: One-step further than dual-stack networks
Guest Post: Lightweight 4over6 is a newly proposed transition mechanism that can overcome some of the inconveniences of dual-stack.