[apnic-talk] Best of the APNIC Blog digest - June 2021
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Best of the APNIC Blog digest - June 2021
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To help apnic-talk subscribers stay abreast of what the community is
reading on the APNIC Blog, we're sharing three of the most popular posts
from the previous month. We hope you find the articles informative and
useful.
Storing and retrieving IP addresses efficiently
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By Jasper den Hertog on 4 June 2021
Storing and searching a full table of IP prefixes can be done relatively
easily. But NLNet labs had different needs, like modest memory
consumption, aggregating by prefix range and time, and handling bursts of
BGP messages from different streams. How did they make it happen?
https://s.apnic.net/efficientprefixes
Opinion: Is big necessarily bad?
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By Geoff Huston on 7 June 2021
In the most popular post of the month, Geoff Huston dives into history,
centralization, economics and the structure of massive Internet
companies to ask the simple question: Is big necessarily bad?
https://s.apnic.net/isbigbad
What are ping and traceroute, really?
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By George Michaelson on 21 June 2021
We sometimes use 'ping' messages to get someone's attention. What
actually is 'ping' anyway? This post explores how ping and traceroute
work, by explaining the basic functions and drawbacks of ICMP.
https://s.apnic.net/pingtraceroute
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