After my last post about home networking, I am jumping back into global routing. More specifically how Indian traffic is hitting the globe when it does not need to. This is an old discussion across senior management folks in telcos,…
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Facebook FNA updates – April 2021
Over last couple of years I posted updates on Facebook caching nodes (FNA) deployment across the world. If you would like to read the logic I am using to pull the data, you can check the original post here. While…
Large prefix hijack from Vodafone AS55410
Earlier today I saw twitter feed of bgpstream about Vodafone AS55410 hijacking a prefix from Brazil. Soon my friend Doug Madory tweeted about large scale hijack coming from Vodafone AS55410. His tweet gave a clear idea of timeline which is…
Doomsday and the DNS resolution
Last month I did a short webinar with Indian ISPs talking about DNS servers in detail. The idea of the session was to make network engineers from fellow ISPs familiar with root DNS servers, DNS hierarchy, anycast etc. As we…
Measuring latency to endpoints with blocked ICMP
And a blog post after a while. Last few months went busy with RPKI. After my last post about RPKI and the fact that India was lacking a little bit on RPKI ROA front, we started with a major push…