Internet Routing Registry Resources by j2sw

Interconnection

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 of routers. Network engineers from participating organizations are authorized to modify the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) … Read more

RPKI and misconceptions

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

Hurricane Electric now requires IRR and filters invalid RPKI

Interconnection

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 will need to have ROAs for your blocksand have routing registry objects. I did a … Read more

Some WordPress tips

If you are wanting to force non SSL to SSL. Add the following to your site’s .htaccess file Set proper file permissions Script from https://www.ryadel.com/en/set-file-system-permissions-wordpress-web-site-centos-7-chmod/ # # This script configures WordPress file permissions based on recommendations # from http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_permissions # # execute it with the following command: # bash set-wordpress-permissions.sh /var/www/ # OWNER=apache #

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 smaller prefixes were learned pretty quickly. It took about 10 minutes to learn two full … Read more

Briefing June 26th 2020 – API,5g,interconnection

https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-massive-spying-on-users-of-googles-chrome-shows-new-security-weakness-2020-6A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry’s failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other sensitive functions.

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 midnight. Is that midnight Friday into Saturday or Midnight Thursday into Friday? If you want … Read more