News and Announcements

22 February 2005 - The RIPE NCC DNS Monitoring Service (DNSMON) provides a comprehensive, objective and up-to-date overview of the quality of the service offered by high-level Domain Name System (DNS) servers. It is an active measurement service. It uses our Test Traffic Measurements (TTM) network t

9 February 2005 - AfriNIC is the emerging Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the African and Indian Ocean region. In preparation for its final recognition expected in April by ICANN, AfriNIC began operating as a fully functional RIR for the African region on 21 February 2005. LIRs in the

The UK Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA) has nominated the RIPE NCC for an Internet Hero award. UK ISPA is a Trade Association for providers of Internet services and promotes competition, self-regulation and the development of the Internet industry. The UK IS

The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) has published its common position on the future of IPv6 management.

The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) has published its common position on the future of IPv6 management. The ITU-TSB as an active participant in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is looking to create a role for itself alongside Regional Intern

Tracking Bugs and Enhancement Requests You can report bugs or ask any question contacting the RIPE Database Support. Stable source release is available from our FTP site. Getting the Source Codes You can still access the source codes of the RIPE Database software, either as a tarball of the lat

[21 December 2004] From Wednesday 29 December 2004, the RIPE Database will support RPSLng. RPSLng extends the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) allowing description of IPv6 and multicast routing policies. It includes a new object type, ROUT

17 December 2004 - On 26 November 2004, the RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with ISZT (Council of Hungarian Internet Providers) deployed a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server at BIX (Budapest Internet Excha

24 November 2004 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with CERN and PSNC (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center) has recently deployed two new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server. One in Geneva, Switzerl

28 October 2004 The RIPE NCC has updated the policy document, "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region". This update documents the recent changes to the policy for allocation sizes as follows: Minimum first all