Oct 28, 202632 minS6
In this episode of PING, we’re hearing from Darren Kara, who is a principal engineer at Quad 9. If you haven’t heard of Quad 9 It’s one of the oldest public DNS services, over 10 years old. An initiative of Packet...
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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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What is PING about?
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.
Who hosts PING?
PING is hosted by APNIC. The show has published 50 episodes to date.
What has PING covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Quad 9, Measurement in the privacy-preserving public DNS service" (28 October 2026, 32 minutes), "The [dismal] economics of AI" (14 October 2026, 51 minutes), and "The October 2026 Root KSK roll" (30 September 2026, 28 minutes).
How often does PING publish?
PING publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 50 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on PING?
Booking probability for PING is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. PING requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. PING's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch PING?
The strongest fits for PING are Telecommunications and Cloud, Data & Web Hosting. PING has a news audience.
About the host
APNIC hosts PING, a news podcast with 50 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 14, 202651 minS6
In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston reflects on the tremendous economic consequences of the surge in capital investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the associated Data Center (DC) build...
- Sep 30, 202628 minS6
In this episode of PING we’re hearing from Duane Wessels, a fellow from Verisign who researches DNS and who we’ve had on PING before. This time Duane is discussing the history of changes of top level Key Signing Key...
- Sep 16, 202657 minS6
In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston and I continue a discussion about the repeat queries Geoff sees on the APNIC Labs experiment. Across time this number has changed, as DNS protocol usage has...
- Sep 2, 202627 minS6
In this episode of PING, we talk with Willem Toorop from NLNet Labs and Ilyas Rahimi who recently completed a masters in Security and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). They’ve been looking at the...
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DNS Cold Start
Aug 19, 202642 minS6In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston and I discuss the behaviour of the DNS system when you have to come up from nothing: the “cold start” where no data exists from prior queries in your “cache”...
- Aug 5, 202635 minS6
In this episode of PING, we talk with Job Snijders about secure Internet routing again, focusing on an approach to preserving the state of RPKI as a longterm historical record for research and analysis. Job was last on...
- Jul 22, 202639 minS6
In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston and I discuss a traffic behaviour in the DNS which Geoff has noticed in the labs advertising based experimental data capture. Virtually every DNS query Geoff...
- Jul 8, 202641 minS6
In this episode of PING, we talk with Willem Toorop about a measurement of 6 choices for naming the root servers of the global DNS. This measurement was motivated by RSSAC 028, a 2017 technical analysis for ICANN of the...
Episode #12
What ‘name-based routing’ really means
Jun 24, 202649 minS6In recent PING episodes, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston has asserted that Internet routing has shifted away from traditional IP packet forwarding. Instead, it is increasingly driven by processes that map names to...
Episode #11
The Erik protocol: improving RPKI data fetch
Jun 10, 202638 minS6In 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 caught up at IETF125...
Episode #10
About Time
May 27, 202636 minS6In 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 in 2024. Dave had...
Episode #9
The socialised cost of online abuse
May 13, 202645 minS6This 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 policy and governance...
Episode #8
CIDR inside
Apr 29, 202649 minS6In 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 the former model of...
Episode #7
IP Networking in Deep Space
Apr 15, 202649 minS6This 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 Protocol communications in...
Episode #6
What does “BCP” really mean?
Apr 1, 202627 minS6In 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 explored emerging...
- Mar 18, 202627 minS6
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 bgproutes.io on PING...
Episode #4
Measuring the use of DNS over IPv6
Mar 4, 202653 minS6In 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 chosen resolver...
Episode #3
Internet measurement in Thailand
Feb 18, 202621 minS6This 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 80 publicly funded...
Episode #2
BGP in review for 2025
Feb 4, 202658 minS6In 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 BGP dynamics for more...
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