Ten years of Let’s Encrypt
A review of Christophe Brocas’ history of Let’s Encrypt, published on his website.
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Tech matters
On misusing transparent DNS forwarders For amplification attacks
Guest Post: Research shows the threat vector introduced by transparent DNS forwarders that enable access to shielded recursive resolvers, and scale better in terms of potential attack volume.
The current state of RDAP
Guest Post: RDAP, the more modern replacement for whois, has matured, and adoption is growing rapidly.
From the stupid DNS tricks department: ipasn.net
A trick that lets you map an IP address to an ASN without preprocessing any data.
From roots to reach: Network resilience in natural disasters
Guest Post: AZIZA demonstrates how networking research can build systems that remain meaningful when continuity disappears.
NetGent: Agent-based automation of network application workflows
Guest Post: NetGent is a deterministic, UI-agnostic workflow engine for generating consistent application traffic at scale, even as interfaces change.
[Podcast] BGP in review for 2025
Geoff Huston discusses BGP trends in 2025 and how they may reshape our understanding of BGP’s place in the Internet’s technology adoption curve.
Thousands of LEO satellites won’t save us (but good regulation will)
Guest Post: This post explores how different economies approach LEO satellite regulation, why these choices matter, and what a balanced, future-proof framework should look like.
Centralized or distributed? Understanding modern router and AI fabric architectures
Guest Post: How distributed forwarding and modern data plane architectures enable routers and AI fabrics to scale reliably and handle massive workloads without single points of failure.
Towards understanding city-level routing using BGP location communities
Guest Post: An inference method that exploits the spatial correlation between a network prefix’s origin, and the location of the router that attaches a location community.