PING
PING is a podcast for people who want to look behind the scenes into the workings of the Internet. Each fortnight we will chat with people who have built and are improving the health of the Internet.
The views expressed by the featured speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of APNIC.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Global Cyber Alliance Measurements
In this episode of PING, Leslie Daigle from the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) discusses their honeynet project, measuring bad traffic internet-wide. This was originally focussed on IoT devices with the…
IPv6 Fragmentation and the DNS
In this episode of PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the change in IP packet fragmentation behaviour adopted by IPv6, and the implications of a change in IETF “Normative Language” …
The ICANN DNS stats collector system
In this episode of PING, Sara Dickinson from Sinodun Internet Technologies and Terry Manderson, VP, Information Security and Network Engineering at ICANN discuss the ICANN DNS stats collector system …
Low Earth Orbit and the TCP congestion control problem
In this episode of PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the rise of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Satellite based Internet, and the consequences for end-to-end congestion control in TCP an…
Negative Caching of DNS Resolution Failures
In this episode of PING, Verisign fellow Duane Wessels discusses a late state (version 08) Internet draft he’s working on with two colleagues from Verisign. The draft is on Negative Caching of DNS Re…
What really happened — 30 years of APNIC
In this episode of PING, instead of a conversation with APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston we’ve got a panel session from APNIC56 he facilitated, where Geoff and six guests got to discuss the 30 ye…
Where in the world is Carmen Santiego's Data Centre?
In this episode of PING, Stephen Song discusses his work mapping the Internet. This is a long-term project, which he carries out alongside and supported by Mozilla Corporation, and the Association fo…
How APNIC Labs measures the world using adverts
In this episode of PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the technique APNIC Labs uses to measure end user behaviour in the global internet. This is probably the only worldwide web adv…
DASH sees a large route leak in Singapore
In june of this year, the Dashboard for AS Health or DASH, a service operated by APNIC saw a leak of approximately 260,000 BGP routes from a vantage point in Singapore, and sent alerts to around 90 s…
The Chips are down: Moore's Law coming to an end.
In this episode of PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the coming future of VLSI with Moores law coming to an end. This was motivated by a key presentation made at the most recent AN…
Here comes the sun(spots) — what are the real risks in solar storms?
In this episode of PING Jaap Akkerhuis (NLNet Labs), Ulrich Spiedel (University of Auckland) and Russ White (Juniper) discuss the issues behind Sunspots, ionisation in the atmosphere and its effects …
Content vs Carriage
In this episode of PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the eternal tension between content and carriage.
At the RIPE 86 meeting held in Rotterdam in May of this year, Rudolf van der B…
Adding ZONEMD protections to the root zone
In this episode of PING, Verisign fellow Duane Wessels presents the ZONEMD resource record, defined in RFC8976.
The “MD” in ZONEMD stands for “message digest” and this resource record (RR) is a checks…
About Time: The Swedish national secure time distribution initiative
In this episode of PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses how Sweden built a national time distribution system and the nature of time in the modern Internet.
At the RIPE86 Meeting held i…
Measuring Ourselves: How the IETF performs at producing documents
In this episode of PING, Christian Huitema discusses how looking into the IETF data tracker allowed him to assess "how well we are doing" at document production.
As the IETF has grown, and as the proc…