OMNI and the 6M’s of modern internetworking
Guest Post: Before establishing a new adaptation layer in the Internet architecture, it’s important to consider the primary motivating reasons, that is, the ‘why’ as opposed to the ‘how’.
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Tech matters
The path to resolverless DNS
Making sense of resolverless name resolution.
ULA is broken (in dual-stack networks)
Guest Post: Why you shouldn’t use ULA in your enterprise network (and what to use instead).
Open DNS resolvers, from bad to worse
Guest Post: 80% of DDoS attacks can be reduced by patching 20% of open DNS resolvers.
John Gilmore on ARP, RARP, BOOTP, DHCP, and Sun
John Gilmore was at the heart of a precious moment in time in the history of Internet Protocols.
Reducing bias of networking A/B tests
Guest Post: If we stop and think about experiments in computer networks, there is no question that interference exists!
Using ccTLD data to study the impact of local IXPs
Guest Post: ccTLD data shows some interesting trends, especially for operators and those wishing to build capability in the Asia Pacific region.
The future (and history) of IPSec
Guest Post: IPSec has had issues; is it ready to be deployed to a large-scale multi-vendor network?
ditto prevents traffic-analysis attacks in WANs
Guest Post: New system makes observed traffic metadata independent of the real traffic in Wide Area Networks.
Public cloud and technical culture
Guest Post: Is public cloud promoting automation dependency?