OARC 32

I attended the OARC 32 in San Francisco workshop today and in this post I’ll provide some notes on talks I found particularly interesting. For those interested the full agenda can be found here and some information on the DNS-OARC organization themselves here. Brian Somers: Recursive Resolution from the ground upThis was a super-interesting talk

Organizational Security Implications of IPv6

In this post (with a very German, bulky title 😉) I’ll take a look at the implications of IPv6 on the security controls & processes in common enterprise environments, based on a few customer projects I performed in 2016–2019. As I laid out in my presentation in the IPv6 WG at the RIPE79 meeting in

Some Notes on IPv6 Bogon Filtering

At first a happy new year to you all!For some of us it will bring IPv6-related happiness (and maybe a few – although temporary 😉 – sorrows). The IPv6 world is full of sources of pain & heated discussions, but in today’s post I will discuss a topic where life got presumably easier with IPv6

Updated: Basic IPv6 Troubleshooting Commands / IPv6 Rosetta Stone 2019

Hi everybody, This post is meant to provide an overview of basic IPv6 troubleshooting approaches and commands, for three main operating systems: Windows, Linux & macOS. For these OSs (and some specific tasks only) it includes an updated version of the “IPv6 Rosetta Stone”, a website I often refer IPv6 beginners to in order to

Some Notes on IPv4 Address Space

Most of you will be aware there are currently several initiatives to make IPv4 address space formerly & formally considered ‘special addresses’ – and hence not to be used for common Internet traffic – usable (by some definition of ‘usable’). The motivation behind such efforts is clear: namely depletion of RFC 1918 space within many