RIPE Atlas: architecture and probe security
Guest Post: Learn about the overall architecture of the RIPE Atlas network and how it ensures secure communication between probes.
Tag: measurement
Ruru: Real-time wide-area TCP latency monitoring
Guest Post: Ruru is a real-time, open source monitoring system that allows users to understand the nature of latency over the Internet.
TCP initial window configurations in the wild
Guest Post: New study scans the entire IPv4 address space to understand initial window configuration usage in the Internet.
Mission accomplished? HTTPS security after DigiNotar
Guest Post: What are the most widely used HTTPS security extensions and how are they improving HTTPS security for users?
Seeing the world with Atlas
Guest Post: Verizon Digital Media Services share their experience using RIPE Atlas to better understand the behaviour of end user networks.
DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram
Guest Post: Bert Hubert discusses two new tools that provide robust histograms of DNS performance to help monitor for slow performance.
Verfploeter: Broad and load-aware anycast mapping
Guest Post: Verfploeter is a new, open-source anycast catchment mapping technique that provides almost four million vantage points.
Should we trust the geolocation databases to geolocate routers?
Guest Post: Geolocation databases are used by researchers and network operators to learn the real-world location of a given IP address. But how reliable are these in terms of coverage and accuracy at both country- and city-level resolutions?
Impressions from RIPE 75
Geoff recaps some highlights from the technical presentations at RIPE 75 in Dubai.
An observatory for path transparency measurement
Guest Post: The MAMI Project’s new Path Transparency Observatory will help operators with locating and analysing network impairments on the Internet.