From the stupid DNS tricks department: ipasn.net
A trick that lets you map an IP address to an ASN without preprocessing any data.
Welcome to APRICOT 2026
APRICOT 2026 starts today in Jakarta, Indonesia! Here are some highlights.
2025 Annual Report now available
The 2025 Annual Report is available.
RIR Governance Document Version 2: Status Report Q1 2026
The NRO NC has compiled a status report related to comments received during the consultation on the second version of the RIR Governance Document.
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.
Connecting an archipelago: Exploring Indonesia’s Internet ahead of APRICOT 2026
Exploring how Indonesia’s unique geography, policy direction, and technical community are shaping one of the Asia Pacific’s most significant Internet ecosystems. Rapid digital expansion, growing infrastructure investment, and an increasingly active operator community are driving progress, even as challenges remain.
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.