Google fixes Public DNS Service
Google has fixed an IPv6 fragmentation handling problem in their Public DNS Service.
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Verfploeter: Broad and load-aware anycast mapping
Guest Post: Verfploeter is a new, open-source anycast catchment mapping technique that provides almost four million vantage points.
CE vendors share their thoughts on IPv6 support
Guest Post: Three well-known vendors share their thoughts on how to improve support for IPv6 on customer equipment.
Should we trust the geolocation databases to geolocate routers?
Guest Post: Geolocation databases are used by researchers and network operators to learn the real-world location of a given IP address. But how reliable are these in terms of coverage and accuracy at both country- and city-level resolutions?
Can you detect new exploits with old techniques?
Guest Post: Why aren’t the good guys ahead of the bad guys when it comes to detecting covert channels and exploiting known vulnerabilities?
Privacy and trustworthiness for web notifications
Guest Post: RFC8188 provides protocol designers a new option for building multi-party protocols with HTTPS by defining a standardized format for encrypting HTTP message bodies.
Impressions from RIPE 75
Geoff recaps some highlights from the technical presentations at RIPE 75 in Dubai.
Scanning .nz for HTTPS support
Guest Post: New research by NZRS provides more insight into how New Zealand’s .nz domains are secured.
Interconnection agreements at scale: secret or simple?
Guest Post: Interconnection agreements require more than just knowledge of how BGP works. Learn what you need to consider and who you need to involve in discussions.
How to: Raw sockets in IPv6
Learn how to use a raw socket interface in IPv6 to generate a UDP-based DNS server and a TCP-based HTTP(S) server that allows the application to exercise direct control over packet fragmentation.