Cloudflare has expanded the range of secure DNS services available. As well as Cisco's OpenDNS, Google's DNS service, Oracle's Dyn, and the recent Quad 9 service, Cloudflare now adds 1.1.1.1…
RFC8369: Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-bit Unicode
In a forward-looking RFC that presupposes an expansion of the Unicode address space to 128-bits, it is proposed that IPv6 addresses may instead of the standard notations proposed in RFC8600,…
China to plan IPv6 leap forward
The Register has picked up a story about China's adoption of IPv6. This article originally came from the Xinhua state news agency. (China to speed up IPv6-based Internet development). China…
IPDetails – a useful multi-tool to gather details about an IP address
What I initially needed IPDetails to offer A couple of months ago I needed a tool that allowed me to gather more information on IP addresses that I'd collected using…
Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge
Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…
There’s a problem with IPv6 route lookup speed in Linux
The challenge The great thing about IPv6 is its larger IP address space, but this is also its weakness. That larger IP address space needs routing, potentially creating larger routing…
Adding a geolocation database to SiLK
Very quickly I've decided that having this is a good thing™. SiLK is great, but if you need to quickly discover where your traffic is coming from being able to…
Now we have SiLK, let’s get it set up..
So Installation of SiLK from the ground up on Centos 7 is only part of the story. You need to configure it to actually collect some data, and then to…