Seems like BSNL-NIB (AS9829) routing with Softlayer’s Singapore datacenter (AS36351) is messed up. Example route between BSNL consumer connection (from Haryana, India) to Softlayer hosted site dot19.com 1 router2 (192.168.1.100) [AS8151/AS28513] 3.136 ms 3.874 ms 4.675 ms 2 117.200.48.1 (117.200.48.1)…
Category: Networking
Messed up connectivity of root servers in India
Today I was showing a good friend – how root servers are working and how they are connected. I was explaining him anycasting and gave example of k-root node which is hosted in Delhi by niXi i.e National Internet Exchange…
Completed IPv6 Certification from Hurricane Electric
Just now completed IPv6 certification with Hurricane Electric. It was very much fun! Starting was pretty much simple and basic, followed by email server running on v6 – which also I was doing already. I was stuck…
openDNS performing better in India now!
Hello everyone! Seems like Tata Communications routing table is changed (call it fixed) to route traffic for openDNS to Singapore. It’s not going to London anymore and I see very good latency from BSNL too (which uses Tata Comm…
Dots in a hostname
Yesterday I had a very interesting discussion with our senior administrator. I was configuring reverse DNS records for our /24 block and I decided to use format – IP.static.domain.com thus if for IP 1.2.3.4, I pointed reverse DNS (PTR) to…