DNS Clients Do Request DNSSEC Today (Featured Blog)
After the DNS root zone was finally signed and a number of Top-Level Domains (TLDs) began signing their zones, we were curious to see how many clients actually request DNSSEC information. We looked at...
View ArticleThe ISP Industry: Concentrated or Diverse? (Featured Blog)
In August 2010, we looked at the growth in RIPE NCC membership and concluded that the number of new RIPE NCC members is still growing at an amazing pace, even during the recent economic downturn......
View ArticleHow Does the Internet Industry Compare? (Featured Blog)
In an earlier CircleID post (The ISP Industry: Concentrated or Diverse?) we discussed if the ISP industry is concentrated and concluded the industry is amazingly open and varied. This time we try to...
View ArticleThe ISP Industry and the Financial Sector - Amazing Similarities (Featured...
In the last RIPE Labs article on this subject How Does the Internet Industry Compare?, we looked at ways to compare our industry with other industrial sectors, and identified a number of...
View ArticleHow a Routing Prefix Travels Through the Internet (Featured Blog)
What happens when an IP address prefix gets announced or withdrawn. How does this information propagate through the Internet? And how does it affect the amount of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) traffic...
View ArticleAmount of Unsolicited Internet Traffic Reflecting Situation in Libya...
During the recent political unrest in the Middle East, researchers have observed significant changes in Internet traffic and connectivity. Typically people look at routing data, latencies when...
View ArticleIPv6 RIPEness: One Year Later (Featured Blog)
A year ago, the RIPE NCC introduced IPv6 RIPEness -- a system that rates IPv6 deployment of Local Internet Registries (LIRs)... Now, one year later, the numbers have gone up... In absolute numbers:...
View ArticleInternet Service Quality Measured from Thousands of Locations (Featured Blog)
RIPE Atlas, the new active measurements network maintained by the RIPE NCC, gives you a way to easily measure the quality of your Internet services. RIPE Atlas is designed in such a way that it can...
View ArticleMeasuring World IPv6 Day - First Impressions (Featured Blog)
The RIPE NCC took active measurements of World IPv6 Day participants before, during and after World IPv6 Day (in cooperation with CAIDA). We selected 53 participants and performed periodical A and AAAA...
View ArticleDNSSEC Takes Off in Wake of Root Zone Signing (Featured Blog)
The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a suite of IETF-developed specifications designed to validate information provided by the Domain Name System (DNS). ... When the root zone was...
View ArticleVisibility of Prefix Lengths in IPv4 and IPv6 (Featured Blog)
Internet routes are specified for an address prefix. The shorter the prefix, the more general the route. A shorter prefix covers more address space and thus a bigger part of the Internet. Very long...
View ArticleDNS Measurements with RIPE Atlas Data (Featured Blog)
As described in New RIPE Atlas Features in the Making, each RIPE Atlas probe performs "anycast instance discovery" measurements. This means, for each DNS root name server, we determine which instance...
View ArticleNo Big Run on IPv4 in 2011 (Featured Blog)
2011 was an interesting year for IPv4: in February 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) handed out their last free IPv4 address blocks to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). In...
View ArticleMeasuring Root Server Performance (Featured Blog)
Root name servers are a core service of the Internet. As such they receive a huge amount of queries and need to answer reliably with acceptable delay. The RIPE NCC is responsible for operating one of...
View ArticleIPv4: Business As Usual (Featured Blog)
This year, we expect that the RIPE NCC's pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses will reach the "last /8", meaning that we have 16,777,216 IPv4 addresses left in the available pool. At that point it will no...
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