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.
Tag: measurement
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.
BGP in 2020 – The BGP Table
Geoff Huston analyses recent and historical BGP routing table growth and forecasts IPv4 and IPv6 BGP routing table growth for the next five years.
How to detect IoT devices in a network
Guest Post: How can we identify and locate IoT devices in networks to mitigate exposure to large-scale attacks?
Reduce the effects of NAT for your IP blocklists
Guest Post: Network operators are largely in the dark about the effectiveness of blocklists.