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The NLnet Labs Newsletter – Spring 2022

The NLnet Labs Newsletter – Spring 2022

Welcome to our first newsletter, providing you with an update on what we've been doing over the last few months and what's coming up from your favourite open-source development crew

11 May 2022 • 7 min read

Braving the Waves with Krill

Braving the Waves with Krill

If you have the luxury that your RIR, NIR or some other organisation offers an RPKI Publication Server that you can use, well then you're in luck. You would only

14 Dec 2021 • 10 min read

Testing the Waters with Krill

Testing the Waters with Krill

We sometimes hear that people have cold feet when it comes to trying out Krill. But, did you know that Krill is at its most prolific in arctic oceans? So,

14 Dec 2021 • 4 min read

Making a Krill Sanctuary

Making a Krill Sanctuary

We sometimes hear that people have cold feet when it comes to trying out Krill on the open ocean, so we decided to create a safe and secluded sanctuary. If

14 Dec 2021 • 7 min read

Dishing up Krill

Dishing up Krill

RPKI Certification Authorities (CAs) publish their RPKI related content using a so-called Publication Server, which in turn makes the 'publication point' for this and all other CAs it serves available

14 Dec 2021 • 9 min read

Routing

Of Donkeys, Mules & Horses

A quest for the perfect data-structure to store and retrieve a full table of IP Prefixes, while maintaining the hierarchical relations.

18 May 2021 • 25 min read

How To Run Krill Behind an NGINX Reverse Proxy

How To Run Krill Behind an NGINX Reverse Proxy

Although Krill has a built-in HTTPS server, it may be desirable to run a production grade webserver as a reverse proxy in front of Krill. This allows easy TLS configuration and additional restrictions, if desired.

5 Jan 2021 • 6 min read

Supporting DNSSEC Key Signing Ceremonies

Supporting DNSSEC Key Signing Ceremonies

Over the past decade, uptake of DNSSEC has grown significantly. The vast majority of top-level domains (TLDs) is now DNSSEC-signed. While key signing ceremonies are now deployed in many places in the DNSSEC community, what is lacking is a common approach, especially related to tooling.

1 Dec 2020 • 13 min read

Moving RPKI Beyond Routing Security

Moving RPKI Beyond Routing Security

Resource Tagged Attestations, or RTAs, are a new type of RPKI object that is being proposed by authors from APNIC and NLnet Labs in the IETF. They allow any arbitrary file to be signed ‘with resources’ by one or more parties.

20 Nov 2020 • 4 min read

Introducing JDR: explore, inspect and troubleshoot the RPKI

Introducing JDR: explore, inspect and troubleshoot the RPKI

Today we launch the first version of JDR, our hosted tool to check anything in the RPKI. While not yet 100% feature complete, we think it already offers useful insights

18 Nov 2020 • 5 min read

SAD DNS and NLnet Labs DNS software

SAD DNS and NLnet Labs DNS software

Photo by arash payam / UnsplashUpdate 18 November 2021: we are aware of the follow-up paper published by the researchers. The text below remains accurate for Unbound users. Please note that

18 Nov 2020 • 5 min read

Why Routinator Doesn’t Fall Back to Rsync

Why Routinator Doesn’t Fall Back to Rsync

When creating software, we carefully weigh each design decision: security, resiliency, usability and many more factors play a role in the end result. This article explores the reasoning behind a behaviour that isn't specified in an RFC but which has significant impact on operators deploying RPKI.

29 Oct 2020 • 6 min read

Journeying into XDP Part 1: Augmenting DNS

Journeying into XDP Part 1: Augmenting DNS

23 Oct 2020 • 12 min read

Testing .. 123 Delegated RPKI

Testing .. 123 Delegated RPKI

12 Oct 2020 • 8 min read

DNS-over-HTTPS in Unbound

DNS-over-HTTPS in Unbound

9 Oct 2020 • 6 min read

Some Country for Old Men

Some Country for Old Men

9 Sep 2020 • 4 min read

Journeying into XDP: Part 0

Journeying into XDP: Part 0

Network programming using XDP has been on our radar for a while now. As tooling around this technology has vastly improved, we decided that it was time to finally get our hands dirty and see what this technology is all about.

20 Jul 2020 • 10 min read

Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing

Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing

Create and maintain Route Origin Authorisations based on the BGP announcements with your address space.

25 Jun 2020 • 4 min read

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