Netflix over IPv6: a longitudinal study
Guest Post: Three year study of Netflix content delivery shows IPv6 performance has improved to be roughly on par with IPv4.
Tag: measurement
Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic
Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.
Characterizing transnational Internet performance in China
Guest Post: Study finds that 79% of 400 measured in-bound transnational connections to China had throughput rates lower than 1Mbps.
Notes from OARC 32b
Geoff shares his thoughts from the recent DNS-OARC virtual meeting.
Reducing latency at CDNs with Bidirectional Anycast/Unicast Probing
Guest Post: A major CDN reduced its median latency by more than half during study into use of Bidirectional Anycast/Unicast Probing.
Characterizing CNAME cloaking-based tracking
Guest Post: Canonical Name (CNAME) cloaking is a new measurement technique to circumvent third-party browser extensions.
How far are we from a web with HTTPS everywhere
Guest Post: Website admins have a role to play to make sure HTTPS is deployed everywhere across the web.
Taking a closer look at the NTP pool using DNS data
Guest Post: About 3% of the domain names requested by the NTP pool are invalid, and almost all the invalid domain names have never provided time synchronization services.
A first look at the misuse and abuse of the IPv4 transfer market
Guest Post: First-of-its-kind study finds that transferred /24 sub-prefixes are six times more likely to be blacklisted compared to non-transferred prefixes.
A look at Route Flap Damping in the wild
Guest Post: Project seeks to understand how widely RFD is deployed and how it’s being configured.