[Podcast] Quad9 — Measurement in the privacy-preserving public DNS service
Darren Kara discusses how the Quad9 Public DNS server balances privacy, measurement, and global threat intelligence to help protect users from malicious destinations.
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[Podcast] The (dismal) economics of AI
As capital, labour, and energy are redirected towards AI infrastructure, the economic risks and consequences could be felt by investors, communities, and consumers worldwide. Geoff Huston discusses the economics of the AI investment boom.
[Podcast] The October 2026 root KSK roll
In this episode of PING, Verisign’s Duane Wessels discusses the transition to the third DNS root KSK key pair, which is scheduled to begin signing the root zone on 11 October 2026.
[Podcast] ‘Just say no’ isn’t as simple as you think
A continuation of the discussion on surplus DNS queries seen at APNIC Labs, the implications of how you say ‘no’, and the transport used for the DNS.
[Podcast] Measuring the impact of locally served root zone
An analysis of the traffic impacts of locally served root zones, by Ilyas Rahimi at UvA.
[Podcast] DNS cold start
Geoff Huston discusses the unexpected behaviours of the DNS when you perform a query after ‘cold start’ with no cached data.
[Podcast] Canonical Cache Representation
Job Snijders discusses a new, compact representation of RPKI-signed objects and an archive of spooled snapshots of the global RPKI repositories.
[Podcast] DNS query duplication
Why does APNIC Labs experimental systems see almost all DNS queries twice or more?
[Podcast] Testing RSSAC 028 DNS root server name choices
A measurement study of how the DNS bootstrap priming query behaves when the root servers are renamed and DNSSEC signatures are added.
[Podcast] What ‘name-based routing’ really means
Internet routing is shifting from IP-based forwarding to name-based decisions, with DNS and intermediaries steering requests. How does this work in practice, and who decides where your request is served from?