Revisiting IXP peering LAN security in the light of new threats and technology evolution
Guest Post: Revisiting and suggesting improvements to peering LAN recommendations, based on several years of traffic statistics from a large IXP.
Tag: measurement
Revisiting DNS and UDP truncation
What are the UDP buffer sizes used in recursive resolver queries to nameservers, and how effective is truncation in today’s DNS?
A multifaceted look at Starlink performance: The good, the bad and the ugly
Guest Post: First-of-its-kind comprehensive analysis of Starlink performance using several measurement sources.
[Podcast] Testing Post Quantum Cryptography DNSSEC
If quantum computing becomes viable, Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) will be needed to replace RSA and ECC signatures in DNSSEC. How well can today’s DNS system handle PQC methods?
[Podcast] Calling time on DNSSEC: Part 1 of 2
Geoff Huston discusses the market failure of DNSSEC in deployment.
Exploring IPv6 scanning activities and prefix discovery
Guest Post: An analysis of scanning behaviour in darknets and honeynets.
Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks
Guest Post: New off-path TCP hijacking attack in Wi-Fi networks that exploits vulnerabilities in the NAT mapping strategies of routers discovered.
[Podcast] The check is in the (e)mail(s)
Philip Paeps from the FreeBSD Cluster Administrators group discusses a simple but powerful approach to measurement: email.
[Podcast] We don’t need subnets any more
Nets and subnets — do we actually need the idea of a subnet in the IP addressing architecture?
A transport protocol’s view of Starlink
How TCP interacts with the characteristics of the Starlink service.