Recursive DNS resolver pools
Guest Post: The concept of resolver pools can be beneficial in improving the performance of DNS resolutions.
Tag: IPv4
Addressing 2017
What changed in Internet addressing in 2017 and how has it changed the outlook for the Internet?
BGP in 2017
A look back on the global routing system in 2017 for both IPv4 and IPv6.
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.
Can you detect new exploits with old techniques?
Guest Post: Why aren’t the good guys ahead of the bad guys when it comes to detecting covert channels and exploiting known vulnerabilities?
A network operator perspective on IPv6 performance
Guest Post: The Network Operator Measurement Activity (NOMA) platform explores the possibility of making use of data within constituent networks for Internet health metrics measurements.
Opinion: In defence of NATs
Opinion: Rather than being condemned, perhaps we should appreciate the role that NATs play in the evolution of the architecture of the Internet?
Dealing with IPv6 fragmentation in the DNS, Part 2
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.
Introducing the NAT64 checker
Guest Post: NAT64check can be used to easily check whether sites are reachable and work correctly over IPv6 and NAT64.
Dealing with IPv6 fragmentation in the DNS
Is IPv6 fragmentation a fixable problem in the DNS, and if so, how?