Anycast performance monitoring with Anteater
Guest Post: The open-source DNS tool Anteater allows real time monitoring of operator infrastructure, using their own traffic.
Tag: anycast
Building an open source anycast CDN
Guest Post: A bit of free time and a desire to experiment led high school student Nate Sales to construct an open source anycast CDN.
MAnycast²: Using anycast to measure anycast
Guest Post: Due to its popularity, identifying which address is anycast isn’t straightforward, so a new approach is needed. Enter MAnycast².
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.
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.