IPv6 in 2020
Did the COVID-19 pandemic have any impact on the deployment and use of IPv6?
Tag: measurement
How Chromium reduced Root DNS traffic
Guest Post: Chromium is driving a reduction in DNS root server traffic. Let’s put some numbers to it.
Developing a common interface between transport and application layers
Guest Post: There is a better way to interface between the application and the transport layer that can be consistent across multiple transport protocols.
Whac-A-Mole: Six years of DNS spoofing
Guest post: Where does DNS spoofing occur? How often? Is it increasing? Researchers examined six years of data to find out.
Addressing 2020
Geoff Huston reports on IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2020 and makes some predictions for the future.
How critical are submarine cables to end-users?
Guest Post: A common assumption is that popular resources tend to be hosted locally, and submarine cables are for backend traffic. Is this accurate?
China Telecom’s IPv6 efforts are beginning to show in the numbers
An IPv6 deployment that began with a series of relatively isolated IPv6 metro area networks (MANs) has begun to take off.
Developing new metrics for tracking IMRS traffic
A recent study examines new metrics that could passively track traffic to ICANN managed root servers.
BeauCoup: Answering many network traffic queries, one memory update at a time
Guest Post: Running multiple heterogeneous network monitoring queries at line rate is challenging, but it can be achieved with ‘coupon collectors’.
BGP in 2020 — BGP Update Churn
Part two of Geoff Huston’s 2020 BGP report investigates whether the stability of the routing system is changing.