As PeeringDB continues to grow and improve, we publish notes notes on new releases as well as promoting new features and bug fixes. These reports are an opportunity to step back and look at the broad sweep of change.| RIPE Labs
The NRO RPKI Program aims to enhance the transparency, robustness and security of the RPKI system while also increasing the consistency of the RPKI system user experience across RIRs. Here's an update on our plans for the rest of 2025.| RIPE Labs
Thinking of entering the RIPE Labs Article Competition? Here's everything you need to know!| RIPE Labs
Starting this week, RIPE NCC members can use OAuth 2.0 to authenticate applications that interact with the RIPE Database. This requested feature supports secure delegated access, allowing third parties to make changes to database objects without exposing user credentials.| RIPE Labs
The RIPE Atlas team is developing a new tool for traceroute visualisations that should make analysing large traceroute measurements much clearer and easier.| RIPE Labs
The RIPE Atlas team is developing a new tool for traceroute visualisations that should make analysing large traceroute measurements much clearer and easier.| RIPE Labs
The RIPE NCC operates two independent anycast DNS services. One is K-root, a well-known service essential to DNS resolution. The other is the less well-known service, AuthDNS. We examine how queries reach AuthDNS from several regions and call for new hosts to help shorten the journey.| RIPE Labs
We're steadily expanding the capacity of our Authoritative DNS (AuthDNS) cluster to ensure it keeps providing resilient and speedy service. Here's a look at what the cluster does and the steps we're taking towards its expansion.| RIPE Labs
In June 2025 we activated a new AuthDNS node, hosted at Maharlika IX in Makati City, Manilla Metro, Philippines. In this article we look at what impact this had for DNS clients in the country as well as to the AuthDNS system as a whole.| RIPE Labs
Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) are often overlooked in discussions about critical infrastructure. Yet their role in routing stability, local resilience, and digital sovereignty is undeniable. In this article, we explore what happens when IXPs fail, and why classifying them as critical infrastructu…| RIPE Labs
DNSMON (and DomainMON) gets a modern rewrite with a new home, responsive design, better performance, and unified technology with RIPE Atlas.| RIPE Labs
It's time for more from our series of articles on measurement.network. This time we turn to V4LESS-AS and doing IPv4 with an IPv6 nexthop.| RIPE Labs
The RIPE Chair Team reports on the latest RIPE community highlights - from RIPE 91 preparation, to mentorship and fellowship programme upgrades, to policy updates and industry event takeaways.| RIPE Labs
Our latest RIPE NCC Days event took place in Chișinău, Moldova from 18-19 June 2025. At the meeting, we heard from local community leaders and examined the landscape of the Internet in Moldova and its neighbours.| RIPE Labs
TLS session security isn't just about encryption - it’s about where and how that encryption is terminated. This article explores common risks in TLS deployments and how to align them with modern security principles like Zero Trust.| RIPE Labs
Future capabilities of quantum attackers will present a host of new vulnerabilities for RPKI. A research student from SIDN Labs presents the first work on post-quantum cryptography for the RPKI, establishing the foundation for making this critical Internet infrastructure quantum-safe.| RIPE Labs
In this article, we introduce openPenny, an open-source traffic checker currently under development as part of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. The goal of openPenny is to help network operators identify non-spoofed traffic arriving at unexpected entry points: this offers a new primitive to detect routing misconfigurations, evaluate policy or commercial adjustments, and defend against security threats such as BGP hijacks.| RIPE Labs
The Internet has long been fertile ground for innovative technologies to grow and openly compete. But having emerged out of these conditions, certain services have come to dominate and stifle the very diversity that made their existence possible. Maria Farrell talks about why we must - and how we can - rewild the Internet.| RIPE Labs
GuardXP is a collaborative project between UPC and CSUC supported by the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2024. It aims to develop a privacy-enhancing tool to combat web tracking and data exploitation. Unlike traditional blacklist-based solutions, GuardXP uses code analysis to detect and block tracking scripts without compromising website functionality.| RIPE Labs
The Domain ASN Mapper represents a critical foundational component of the Domain Reputation Measure project funded by RIPE NCC Community Projects. This component enables large-scale analysis of domain infrastructure by resolving DNS records and mapping them to Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). This…| RIPE Labs
RIPE Labs is a place to showcase and test new tools, where experts share analyses and discuss topics relevant to the state of the Internet, and where those new to the community can get the resources they need to find their way into the conversation.| RIPE Labs
In this article we use data from RIPE Atlas probes to investigate the usage of 240/4, a block of IPv4 addresses 'reserved for future use', formally known as Class E in the wild.| RIPE Labs
Good intentions don’t always result in good outcomes. This is especially the case with recent suggestions regarding end-to-end-encryption adaptability requirements for number independent communication services. Not only is security an issue, the suggestions themselves go against the design of the I…| RIPE Labs
Join the next RIPE NCC hackathon focused on Green Tech this December! This time, our goals are to develop tools, policies and protocols to reduce the environmental impact of Internet infrastructure. Apply now to join and help us organise this Sustain-a-thon!| RIPE Labs
We're making further changes to improve the ease of access to content on the ripe.net website.| RIPE Labs
Search on www.ripe.net is an important feature that has been lacking in usability, and the behaviour was changed during the recent redesign. In this article, we’ll dive a little deeper into the complexities of website search and review why this change was implemented.| RIPE Labs
