ARIN IRR Walkthrough
https://www.arin.net/announcements/20200728/ ARIN Internet Routing Registry walkthrough.
Internet Architecture
Interconnection, peering, Data centers. How the Internet works. IXPs, transit, and other topics. Routing and Control Planes such as BGP and OSPF protocols. RPKI and IP resources are also covered.
Don’t try this at home kids. Automated BGP Optimization
https://radar.qrator.net/blog/as10990-routing-optimization-taleConclusion? Do not try to optimize the routes with automated software – BGP is a distance-vector routing protocol that has proved, throughout the years, its ability to handle the traffic. Software, wanting to “optimize” the system involving thousands of members would never be smart enough to compute all the possible outcomes of such manipulation.
New Undersea Cable – Grace Hopper
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announcing-googles-grace-hopper-subsea-cable-system …We’re excited to announce a new subsea cable—Grace Hopper—which will run between the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, providing better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise products.
Network troubleshooting tools
Recently, there was a thread on the NANOG list asking what were somne favorite network troubleshooting tools. I have taken many of these tools and created the following list. http://ping.pe/Simple pingport and dig commands https://mtr.sh/BGP Looking glass https://perfops.net/mtr-from-worldTraceroute from various hosts on the net http://www.traceroute6.net/IPV6 tools (ping,traceroute,etc) https://dnsviz.net/Carious DNS tools http://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/Routing Registry object explorer https://mxtoolbox.com/DNS … Read more
RPKI and misconceptions
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After my blog post about Hurricane Electric and RPKi support, I was seeing some comments by folks that warrant some clarification. I put together a short midnight podcast on this. To summarize1. route original validation is not the same as having ROA’S with your RIR2. If you have an ASN you should have a peering … Read more
Internet routing registry list
Ever wondered what routing registries are out there? Here is a list from irr.net
The problem with routing registries
Anyone who has followed me knows I am a fan of Internet Routing Registries (IRR). However, there is a glaring issue with these registries.
VXLAN and why you should care as a service provider
What is VXLAN and how would service providers and WISPs use it in their networks?
Video on how the Internet Works
I have a few nitpicky things and the video seems a little contrived, but it’s decent nonetheless. WISPs are not really mentioned, but others are not as well.
Routing Registries
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I had routing registries on the brain so I wanted to knock some of the rust of recording and did 10 minutes on routing registries and what they are
Routing Registries and you
This was originally published at https://www.mtin.net/blog/internet-routing-registries/ It has been updated form grammar, but I am working on an updated version of this, Routing Registries are a mysterious underpinning of the peering and BGP world. To many, they are arcane and complicated. If you have found this article you are at least investigating the use of … Read more