Came across this impressive cover of last mile broadband issues in Orcas Island in Washington state in Arstechnica.com. It’s very true on how so many areas are just not served and likely will never be served because when you have large telecom players bidding for billion dollar worth of Spectrum, all they care next for is very high value returns. And if they do not see those kind of returns, areas stay unserved.

There seems be an ongoing route leak by AS49505 (Selectel, Russia) for K root server. K root server’s IP: 193.0.14.129 Origin Network: AS25152 Here’s trace from Airtel Looking Glass, Delhi PoP Mon Oct 26 16:21:18 GMT+05:30 2015 traceroute 193.0.14.129 Mon Oct 26 16:21:22.053 IST Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to 193.0.14.129 1 \* 203.101.95.146 19 msec 4 msec 2 182.79.224.73 14 msec 3 msec 1 msec 3 14.

I have been using OpenVPN from quite sometime and very much like it. Earlier I was running OpenVPN client on TP Link 1043nd router and that worked great. But recently I switched home routing to Microtik Map2N which has much better VLAN & IPv6 support. Since then I had trouble in getting VPN back live. I can always use VPN client on laptop but that’s ugly for daily use specially when this is my primary work location!

Enjoyed ISC’s presentation about their analysis of F root server (one 13 root DNS servers which power the Internet) about anycast performance gloablly for 192.5.5.0/24 announced (and anycasted) by AS3557 (ISC). This was presentation at UKNOF 32. Embedded presentation below (or click here to watch on YouTube directly)

K root in Noida seems to be not getting enough traffic from quite sometime and connectivity does seems bit broken. This is a blog post following up to Dyn’s excellent and detailed post about how TIC leaked the world famous 193.0.14.0/24 address space used by AS25152. It was good to read this post from RIPE NCC written by my friend Emile (and thanks to him for crediting me to signal about traffic hitting outside!