Reducing latency at CDNs with Bidirectional Anycast/Unicast Probing
Guest Post: A major CDN reduced its median latency by more than half during study into use of Bidirectional Anycast/Unicast Probing.
Tag: anycast
The BGP Tuner: intuitive anycast management
Guest Post: New open-source tool enables operators to mitigate DDoS attacks and better manage traffic and user experience as per their policies.
Measuring IPv6
There’s a growing body of research trying to understand how IPv6 is functioning in the Internet.
The speed of BGP network propagation
Guest Post: There’s quite a gap between providers propagating BGP route updates fastest and slowest to their peers.
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.
IPv6 anycast possibly done better
Guest Post: After years of being used sparsely for UDP-based services such as DNS, anycasting IP space has become quite a meme in the networking world.
Anycast latency: How many sites are enough?
Guest Post: New research studies the relationship between latency and anycast deployment of four Root DNS servers (C, F, K and L) to determine how many anycast sites are required for good latency.
IP anycast and managed DNS
Here at APNIC, we use both IP anycast and managed DNS. This article outlines how we do it.
DNS OARC Fall Workshop 2015 Report
A collation of the presentations I found most stimulating at the DNS Operations, Analysis and Research Centre’s Fall 2015 workshop.