What’s in a name?
Guest Post: Names sent through to the DNS contain a wide variety of names from many applications, typos and strings of seemingly random letters.
Tag: measurement
What’s the deal with IPv6 link-local addresses?
Guest Post: Find out how how link-local addresses in IPv6, specifically the ‘%eth0’-part of link-local addresses, can have an impact on RIPE Atlas measurements.
Visualizations of periodic IoT traffic
Guest Post: How regularly are IoT devices, such as smart light bulbs, accessing your network?
Why is so much Internet traffic leaving Pakistan?
Guest Post: The importance of hosting local content locally is evident in Pakistan.
DNSSEC validation revisited
Over the past year, DNSSEC validation has rallied. Geoff Huston looks at what is behind the rise.
Network topology design at 27,000 km/hr
Guest Post: Computer scientists are proposing a novel network design that could double the network capacity of low-flying satellite Internet systems.
Loko: Predictable latency in small networks
Guest Post: Good, fast, cheap — pick two. This has been a fundamental rule of network operations since the beginning. Or so we thought.
ConQuest: fine-grained queue analysis
Guest Post: With ConQuest, operators and researchers can monitor the queuing buffer, pinpoint the particular bursty flows, and perform corrective actions.
Steering hyper-giants’ traffic at scale
Guest Post: New traffic engineering system, FlowDirector, reduces traffic overheads for large CDNs on long-haul links by 15%.
Traffic analysis still possible when using DoT and DoH
Guest Post: Study seeks to measure the effectiveness of encrypting the DNS for the purpose of privacy.