A Longitudinal View of Netflix
This came across the NANOG mail list. A Longitudinal View of Netflix: Content Delivery over IPv6 and Content Cache Deployments paper: https://bit.ly/2toOGWPslides: https://bit.ly/2ZoEpapvideo: https://vimeo.com/437111302 Some highlights Caches reachable within 6 IP hops and 20 ms-IP path lengths shorter by 40–50%-Latency …
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 …
ISPs and vacation..yes you can get away
Let’s face it, if you are an owner, sysadmin, network admin, or whatever in a small to medium Internet Service Provider vacations can be a troublesome thing to accomplish. Getting away for a conference or training can be a huge …
WISPs: IPv6 is the answer to some of your issues
Many Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs), especially newer startups, struggle with nat issues and having enough public Ip addresses to go around. Invariably, you start running into double nat issues pretty quickly. Then you get the dreaded gamer call: Many …
Internet Routing Registry Resources by j2sw
What is a routing registry?From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Routing_RegistryThe Internet routing registry works by providing an interlinked hierarchy of objects designed to facilitate the organization of IP routing between organizations, and also to provide data in an appropriate format for automatic programming …
ARIN resources and the Service Provider
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can be intimidated by all of the facets of working with the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN). I have put together a guide that outlines common things you, as a service provider, need to do. …
Hurricane Electric now requires IRR and filters invalid RPKI
If you are a Hurricane Electric customer you may be receiving e-mails like the following: What does this mean for you as a service provider? If you use Hurricane Electric as transit or peer with them on an exchange you …
New Speed Test server for Patreons
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CCR1016 BGP route pull down
This morning I had a Mikrotik CCR1016 where I had to change the router ID, which caused all the sessions to reset. The following is a screenshot of the time it took to re-learn all of the peers. Obviously, the …
OpenVPN, rooter project, and Mikrotik
Tutorial on Using The Rooter project to establish an OpenVPN connection to a Mikrotik router.
Justin’s I.T. maintenance tip #7
When you are scheduling late maintenance schedule it anytime after 12:01AM so there is no confusion on the day. It’s easier to clarify 12:01AM on Friday the 10th than midnight on Friday. Folks tend to get confused when you say …
Takeaways for the customer from Tech Support
I have been in the ISP industry for close to thirty years now. One thing that has changed very little is the customer side of technical support. What I mean by this is, no matter if it is dial-up or …