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.
Tag: CDN
[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.
The elephant effect
Guest Post: Considerations on the phenomenon of streaming football in Italy and the operators’ point of view.
Sender pays
Opinion: Be careful what you wish for.
[Podcast] Rethinking how we measure video performance
How we measure video streaming experience can shed light on how we observe, and develop, the Internet.
Content vs carriage — who pays?
The Internet is not free; ultimately the consumer pays.
Google and subsea fibre
The dynamics of ‘nonlocal’ fetch have changed significantly.
Bypassing CDN WAFs with alternate domain routing
Guest Post: How to mitigate an attack that can bypass security features of shared CDNs.