Hacking Away at the Internet’s Security

The front page story of the September 13 2011 issue of the International Herald Tribune said it all: “Iranian activists feel the chill as hacker taps into e-mails.” The news story relates how a hacker has “sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam”…


BGP Routing Growth in 2011

BGP has been toiling away, literally holding the Internet together, for more than two decades, and nothing seems to be falling off the edge of the Internet. As far as we can tell everyone can still see everyone else, and routing appears to be working. So why should we be…


IPv6 in 2011

Recently I wrote about the IPv4 routing table, and the changes that were observed across 2011. A reader has asked me: “Is the v6 table included in this? Would the v6 table size curve in any way pick up where the v4 curve “left off”? Maybe I’m being too hopeful!”…


The IPv4 Routing Table in 2011

The size of the global routing table for IPv4 has been growing at a steady pace for many years. However, over the last few months, the world of IPv4 routing appears to be slowing down.