Notes from RIPE 83
Geoff Huston discusses technical presentations from RIPE 83.
Category:
Tech matters
Working latency — the next QoE frontier
Guest Post: Comcast shares its work into reducing latency through Active Queue Management.
Help develop the DNS Data Dictionary
Guest Post: The DNS Data Dictionary seeks to map what is in existing relevant protocols and prevent divergence in new protocols.
ARP problems in EVPN
Guest Post: Why you should always set ARP timeout to less than five minutes in L3 EVPN and beware potential ARP suppression issues in L2 EVPN.
Modern OSes are prone to side-channel-based DNS cache poisoning attacks
Guest Post: Researchers show how SAD DNS attacks allow an off-path attacker to inject malicious DNS records into a DNS cache.
NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 1
Guest Post: Encryption and cloud adoption are creating hurdles for network performance monitoring vendors. To survive, solutions must evolve or die.
Should you update your Route Flap Damping parameters?
Guest Post: Network operators should regularly check their RFD configurations for harmful vendor defaults.
The impact of Private Relay on network operators and ISPs
Guest Post: Private Relay is likely to cause some operational challenges to network operators and ISPs
Adoption of DNS security mechanisms related to ease-of-use, cost
Guest Post: Study shows ease-to-deploy and cost are important factors when it comes to using DNS security mechanisms.
Meta-Peering: Towards automated ISP peering
Guest Post: New tool automates the peer selection process and suggests possible Points of Presence according to ISP specific criteria.