The presentation will give an update about some of the most recent developments in DNS privacy technologies including the latest encryption and discovery protocols, touching on related developments including Private Relay and Encrypted Client Hello. The focus will be on highlighting aspects of these developments of particular relevance for network operators to consider.
Service providers are building out networks to extend coverage to underserved communities and provide faster, more secure, and innovative services. One critical area that can be overlooked in the long list of network requirements is the need to provide IPv4-IPv6 connectivity. The price of scarce IPv4 addresses keeps rising and can become a surprising and unexpected cost for many operators....
SentryPeer is a fraud detection tool. It lets bad actors try to make phone calls and saves the IP address they came from and number they tried to call. Those details are then used to block them at the service providers network and the next time a user/customer tries to call a collected number, it's blocked.
Traditionally this data is shipped to a central place, so you don't own the data...
When we started to build and test our BNG software for open hardware platforms, we got increasingly frustrated with the abilities and test methodology of commercial network testing software. Most solutions come with a dedicated hardware chassis or VMs with high CPU and memory requirements. Commercial network testing software is often limited by strict licensing. When performing regression...
I have created a tool to do country-specific surveys of the state of reverse DNS deployment in the IPv4 space. I have a 5-minute lightning talk that reports the results of the survey for the UK (I'll run the numbers a day or two before UKNOF49) and then I gently remind the audience the importance of tagging publicly accessible network infrastructure elements with PTR records to help both...
LINX recently introduced the option of 400GE ports for members in partnership with its vendor partner, Nokia. This presentation covers why this is important, the complexity of a mixed vendor network and the development process to get to where we are today.
LINX’s most significant exchange is the LON1 LAN in London which has been converted from MPLS/VPLS to MPLS/EVPN. LINX now have a proven...
The world’s trust in DNS rests in no small part on the Root Server System (RSS). For three decades the RSS has operated 24 x 365 without interruption thanks to the services of a small group of organisationally diverse, fiercely independent, utterly dedicated, and highly collaborative Root Server Operators (RSO). The year 2021 began with a potential regulatory threat to the stability of the RSS...
UKNOF relies on volunteers to survive. In this session we will recognise the volunteers who make it a success. We will present plaques recognising the efforts by volunteers who have left the UKIF board and various committees. We will also welcome new volunteers who have joined the UKIF board, the Communications Committee, and taken leadership roles in the Programme Committee.
