Olympeaks: The impact of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Internet traffic
Guest Post: The ‘Olympeaks Observatory’ tracked record-breaking peaks in Internet traffic during the 2024 Olympics.
Tag: CDN
[Podcast] Privacy and DNS Client Subnet
Geoff discusses EDNS0 client subnet signaling, how it affects traffic steering by the CDN, and the labs measurements.
Privacy and DNS Client Subnet
How can a CDN steer users to optimize content delivery, and how does this affect user privacy?
Unravelling the threat of hosting-based domain takeovers
Guest Post: Introducing and evaluating a novel framework for detecting domain takeovers.
The edge on speed: Infrastructure for the immersive Internet
Guest Post: What will be needed to power the immersive tactile Internet? Dr Thomas King looks at the challenges and the tasks for infrastructure providers to build the foundations for the future Internet.
[Podcast] DNS is the new BGP — how we really route things in the modern Internet
The role of DNS in steering how content is fetched and the changing landscape of decision-making for applications-level routing.
A hop away from everywhere — long-haul links in today’s Internet
Guest Post: Researchers analyse infrastructure from a network-layer perspective and develop a method to identify long-haul links in extensive traceroute datasets.
[Podcast] Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego’s data centre?
Exploring Stephen Song’s work in mapping the Internet and Open Data in telecommunications.
MaginotDNS: Attacking the boundary of DNS caching protection
Guest Post: A look at modern day cache poisoning attacks on the integrity of the DNS.
Cloudflare servers don’t use IPs anymore — so how do they connect to the Internet?
Guest Post: How Cloudflare manages performance, egress IP address selection, and geofencing at massive scale.