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.
Guest Post: Verfploeter is a new, open-source anycast catchment mapping technique that provides almost four million vantage points.
Topics discussed at day two of DNS OARC 27 included the risks to the DNS associated with IPv6 and a project to reduce unnecessary traffic on the roots.
Some of the highlights from DNS-OARC 27 held in San Jose from 29 September to 3 October 2017.
APNIC participated at HKNOG 5.0 in Hong Kong on 15 September 2017.
Why has the DNS Root Zone KSK roll been postponed? Geoff Huston digs into the data to explain.
APNIC is supporting ISC to incorporate code changes to BIND, its open source DNS software, to help reduce the load on DNS root servers.
In part two of his IPv6 fragmentation research posts, Geoff Huston turns his attention to measuring the packet drop rate when sending fragmented packets to IPv6 end hosts.
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.
Is IPv6 fragmentation a fixable problem in the DNS, and if so, how?
Interest in the DNS appears to come in waves and we seem to be be in the midst of a furious burst of activity.