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2010 will be a bad year for ipv4
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We are now at the end of January, but IPv4, the Internet’s core addressing protocol still has a nasty hangover, and all signs are pointing to 2010 being a bad year for the protocol.
Since January 1st, a few key milestones have passed, indicating how urgent the IPv4 rundown problem has become. Firms that rely on [...]
IXP Bake Off Results
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Here are some slides that present some research undertaken by a number of European Internet Exchange points (IXPs), which I presented at UKNOF15 last week. They may be of interest to networks which connect to IXPs who have been considering connecting to the local multi-lateral peering (MLP) service, but are unsure whether testing has proved [...]
DNSSEC and SSL certificates
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Dr. Jörg Schweiger of the German domain name registry DENIC posed an interesting question at this morning’s first DENOG meeting, in Frankfurt.
Would domain name users who are concerned about the accuracy of data served pay extra for the ability to sign their DNS zone ? A handful of people in the room raised their hand [...]
IPv6 Track at NANOG
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Greetings from Philadelphia! I am presenting as part of the IPv6 at NANOG46 (click here for info of how to watch) at 9:30PM UK time today, or download the IPv6 for Enterprises presentation here, or see information about the other speakers here..
The messages are clear and simple. Working now to get ready for the IPv6 [...]
IPv4 Run-out policies in Europe
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There are a few policy suggestions pushing their way through the RIPE policy development process which discuss how the final remaining IPv4 addresses should be given to end users in the European region.
They all show that the effects of scarsity of IP addresses will be felt before the final few addresses become assigned to end [...]
18 months? And google are nimble?
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Google recently announced that they’d done a front-to-back implementation of IPv6, using engineers’ spare time, in 18 months. Cue well over 100 comments on slashdot claiming that this goes to show how hard implementing any sort of v6 service is at all, given it takes a company known for hiring smart people as long as [...]
IPv6 Tooling talk
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At 3pm I’ll deliver this lightning talk to the LINX IPv6 Specialist Techical Workshop 2009 on IPv6 Tooling.
It covers :
Provisioning tools/notes
SNMP
NetFlow notes
Scripting notes
The internet is still broken, guys…
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I complained on December 10th 2008 that The Internet was broken for 4-byte ASN speakers. Rob Shakir, Jonathan Oddy, and I have been researching in detail the mechanism by which a faulty announcement by an end-site network in the Ukraine was able to break BGP (the protocol that glues different networks on the internet together, [...]
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