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Concerns Grow As AFRINIC’s Funds Are Frozen Over IPv4 Dispute

Kentik

An evolving legal dispute involving AFRINIC, Africa’s regional internet registry, has led to the freezing of the organization’s bank account and concerns about the stability of the continent’s internet operations. The global internet is administered by five regional internet registries (RIRs): APNIC, ARIN, RIPE NCC, LACNIC and AFRINIC.

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

Back in 2015, when we monitored approximately 200 customer devices, we started with 2 nodes in active/backup mode. IPv6 peerings are starting to outgrow a single node. It also allowed mirroring the setup for our IPv6 fabric. We started by setting the requirements, including that we: Should support both IPv4 and IPv6.

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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 1

Kentik

Designed before the dawn of the commercial Internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the Internet infrastructure. Why is an understanding of BGP helpful in understanding Internet connectivity and interconnectivity?