BGP in 2019 – The BGP Table
Geoff Huston analyses BGP routing table growth with some predictions for the size of the IPv4 and IPv6 BGP routing tables in the next five years.
Tag: measurement
When to use and not use BBR
Guest Post: The difference between the bottleneck buffer size and bandwidth-delay product typically dictates when BBR performs well, study finds.
Monitoring JavaScript with VisibleV8
Guest Post: VisibleV8 is a custom open-source variant of the V8 JavaScript engine in the Chromium browser and can provide deep insight into dynamic behaviour on the Web.
Tracing the evolution of Slow Drip attacks
Guest Post: Random Subdomain attacks, aka Slow Drip attacks, have morphed significantly over time and are somewhat perplexing.
Measuring IPv6 use during Summer Koshien 2019 live stream
Guest Post: Around one in four people who streamed the 2019 National High School Baseball Championship did so via IPv6.
Down the black hole: Dismantling operational practices of BGP blackholing at IXPs
Guest Post: Study analyzes the efficiency of RTBH as a mitigation tool at one of the world’s largest IXPs.
M-Lab: measuring Internet performance in the Asia Pacific
Guest Post: People use the M-Lab platform to run more than two million measurements per day worldwide.
Sizing the buffer
If buffers are generally good and improve data throughput, then more (or larger) buffers are better, right?
Who’s scanning your network?
Guest Post: Study finds that a third of all scan traffic is by scanners that target specific prefixes or networks.
Is new always better? UDP vs DoH
Guest Post: Study seeks to understand which transport protocol works best with DNS-over-HTTPS.