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?
Tag: measurement
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.
Measuring your web server reachability with TCP Ping
Guest Post: Which is better measuring the connectivity and latency of web servers on the network level, HTTP or TCP Ping?
Metrics @ IX Australia
Guest Post: Check out how IX Australia have re-architected and designed a new platform to provide higher-definition network insights.
Is YouTube faster over IPv6?
A three-year study sought to measure the difference between YouTube content delivery over IPv6 and IPv4 to understand which provides the best user experience.