Archive for 2009

Q3 2009 Fast Flux by the Numbers

November 2, 2009 by Jose Nazario

Spent some time lately reading various companies’ Q3 reports on their data to get a lay of the land. I’ve also spent some time thinking about responses to fast flux. The data below is the result of our tracking in ATLAS of fast flux activity. Our monitoring uses spam traps and other means to identify [...]

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Who Put the IPv6 in my Internet?

September 8, 2009 by Craig Labovitz

About this time last year, we released a study on the state of IPv6 deployment in the Internet. Our August 2008 paper found diminishingly small traces of IPv6 — less than one hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic. This year? In a dramatic reversal of long-term IPv6 stagnation, global IPv6 traffic globally grew more than [...]

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The Internet After Dark (Part 2)

August 30, 2009 by Craig Labovitz

This blog completes our informal three week study of Internet daily traffic patterns. Using data from the Internet Observatory, we analyzed weekday application traffic across 110 geographically diverse ISPs, including some of the largest carriers in North American and Europe. We believe this report (and upcoming paper) represent the largest study of Internet traffic temporal [...]

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