By Geoff Huston

At APNIC Labs we've been experimenting with understanding how the DNS handles requests to resolve nonexistent names to make the DNS more resilient to random name attacks.

By George Michaelson

An analysis of the traffic impacts of locally served root zones, by Ilyas Rahimi at UvA.

By Brandner Laurin

Guest Post: While many L7 protocols are complex to parse, the logic needed to enforce L7 policies tends to be simple. For the vast majority (89%) of L7 policies in the wild, Beeline can eliminate the service proxy from the critical path.

By Hervé Clément

The NRO NC has published the Recommended Draft RIR Governance Document, including a redline version and rationale document.

By Luca Cicchelli

Guest Post: The recent Telstra outage highlighted a critical but often overlooked dependency in modern networks: Accurate time synchronization.

By Niels Provos

Guest Post: Patching faster cannot keep up with AI-driven discovery. Leverage structural invariants to make bug classes irrelevant.

By George Michaelson

Modern service discovery mechanisms increasingly allow services to run on arbitrary ports, yet DNS may remain the one protocol that cannot fully escape its dependency on the long-established convention of port 53.

By Trace Wu

Cast your vote for the seat open for election on the NRO NC. All voting closes on Thursday, 10 September 2026 at 14:30 (UTC +5:30).