Episodes 50
Avg. Duration 44m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (4)
Since May 2024
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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99%
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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.

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S6E11 The Erik protocol: improving RPKI data fetch

Jun 10, 2026 38m Transcript

In this episode of PING we’re hearing about secure Internet Routing and its data distribution problem from Job Snijders who has been on PING before talking about his measurements in BGP and RPKI. We…

S6E10 About Time

May 27, 2026 36m Transcript

In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston and I discuss Network Time Protocol or NTP. NTP is one of the older systems we depend on, designed and implemented by Dave Mills who died…

S6E9 The socialised cost of online abuse

May 13, 2026 45m Transcript

This time on PING I'm talking to Alban Kwan from the Trusted Notifier Network (TNN). I caught up with Alban at the APRICOT/APNIC61 meeting held recently in Jakarta, where Alban was attending the…

S6E8 CIDR inside

Apr 29, 2026 49m Transcript

In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the tortuous history of The CIDR report Classless Inter-Domain Routing or CIDR, is a mechanism defined in the 90s, to replace…

S6E7 IP Networking in Deep Space

Apr 15, 2026 49m Transcript

This episode of PING is an interview with Marc Blanchet from Viagenie in Quebec, Canada. Marc has been active in Internet Procotols and the IETF for decades, most recently focussed on Internet…

S6E6 What does “BCP” really mean?

Apr 01, 2026 27m Transcript

In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses an emerging concern about how the IETF interprets the concept of ‘Best Current Practice‘ (BCP). In his previous episode, Geoff…

S6E5 bgproutes.io: A next-generation BGP data collection platform

Mar 18, 2026 27m Transcript

This episode of PING features Thomas Alfroy and Thomas Holterbach from the University of Strasbourg, talking about bgproutes.io - A new approach to BGP data collection and analysis. We've featured…

S6E4 Measuring the use of DNS over IPv6

Mar 04, 2026 52m Transcript

In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses running advertising-based experiments and a problem of interest in the modern DNS. DNS fundamentally requires end users, their…

S6E3 Internet measurement in Thailand

Feb 18, 2026 21m Transcript

This episode of PING features two members of the Thai academic and research community and was recorded last year at IETF 122 in Bangkok. With a population of more than 70 million, Thailand has around…

S6E2 BGP in review for 2025

Feb 04, 2026 57m Transcript

In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston returns with his annual review of BGP, reflecting on developments across 2025. Geoff has been publishing this year-in-review analysis of…

S6E1 NITK Students at IETF: Fresh Minds for standards development

Jan 21, 2026 30m Transcript

Welcome back to PING for 2026 and season 6. This time on PING, we have a pair of interviews with students from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal (NITK), recorded last year at…

S5E23 Going Dark: measurement when the Internet hides the detail

Dec 10, 2025 54m Transcript

In the final podcast for 2025, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the problem of independent measurement in an Internet which is increasingly “going dark”. Communications has always…

S5E22 Adjusting for data source bias in Internet Measurements

Nov 26, 2025 38m Transcript

This time PING features Emile Aben from the RIPE NCC R&D Department. Emile is a Senior Research Engineer, and for over a decade and a half has been looking at Internet Measurement at RIPE in the…

S5E21 the Realpolitik of undersea cables

Nov 12, 2025 52m Transcript

In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston explores the complex landscape of undersea cables. They have always had a component of strategic interest, communications and snooping on…

S5E20 Greasing the wheels

Oct 29, 2025 36m Transcript

In this episode of PING, Shumon Huque from Salesforce discusses how protocols with extensible flag fields can benefit from regular testing of the values possible in the packet structure. This…

S5E19 Geolocation and Starlink

Oct 15, 2025 50m Transcript

In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses a problem which cropped up recently with the location tagging of IP addresses seen in the APNIC Labs measurement system. For…

S5E18 Measuring RSSAC047 Conformance

Oct 01, 2025 31m Transcript

RSSAC047 - a document from the Root Server System Advisory Committee proposed a set of metrics to measure DNS root servers, and the DNS root server system as a whole. the document was approved in…

S5E17 Faster Network design with simpler hardware: TCP Flow control and ECN.

Sep 17, 2025 52m Transcript

In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston shares a story from the recent AusNOG in Melbourne and connects it to measurement work at APNIC Labs, exploring how modern IP flow control…

S5E16 Whats going on in bad traffic in 2025

Sep 03, 2025 27m Transcript

In this episode of PING, Adli Wahid, APNIC's Security Specialist discusses the APNIC honeypot network, an investment in over 400 collectors distributed throughout the Asia Pacific, collecting data on…

S5E15 The Inevitability of Centrality

Aug 20, 2025 1h Transcript

In this episode of PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist, Geoff Huston, discusses the economic inevitability of centrality, in the modern Internet. Despite our best intentions, and a lot of long standing…

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