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.
Event Wrap: IETF 112
Geoff Huston presented on Internet centrality at IETF 112, held online from 6 to 12 November 2021.
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.
Event Wrap: Peering Asia 2021v
APNIC participated in Peering Asia 2021v, held online on 9 November 2021.
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.
AnyOpt: Predicting and optimizing IP anycast performance
Guest Post: New anycast technique reduces average RTT between clients and anycast servers by 43.4%.
Should information flows be controlled by the Internet plumbers?
Guest Post: Big companies have made decisions to moderate content that is clearly out of their scope as infrastructure intermediaries. It begs the question — why?