Shaping the Internet: History and impact of IXP growth
Guest Post: IXPs have had a clear impact in reducing paths and dependence on Tier-1 transit providers.
Tag: measurement
One in four Google Public DNS requests are being intercepted in China: report
Guest Post: Have you ever considered when you use Google DNS as your resolver, whether your queries may be answered by somebody else?
The drawbacks of blackholing
Guest Post: Study seeks to understand how blackholing is used following DDoS attacks to improve mitigation techniques.
Excessive BGP AS-PATH prepending is a self-inflicted vulnerability
Guest Post: Prepending-to-all is a self-inflicted and needless risk that serves little purpose.
Can AS-PATH prepending compromise the security of Internet routing?
Guest Post: AS-PATH prepending may be handy for performing traffic engineering but in can also increase the risk of prefix interception attacks.
Looking for what’s not there
How effective is NSEC caching today?
Tracking the DNS stars: the DNS Observatory
Guest Post: Is today’s DNS distributed, fast and secure enough for its purpose?
Who’s knocking? Profiling recursive resolvers at authoritative name servers
Guest Post: Knowing which DNS resolvers are serving key clients would allow operators to optimize server infrastructure.
DNS-OARC 30: Bad news for DANE
Geoff Huston shares his thoughts from DNS-OARC 30.
The value of measurements: network latency
Guest Post: Measuring latency data provides a powerful insight into any working network.