Just came across this brilliant talk by my friend Bert Hubert. It covers so nicely about the mad rush to just outsource everything and how innovation is lost. While he mentioned names of EU telcos in examples, unfortunately situation isn’t…
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…
Farm law protests & confusion about democracy
Over two months passed since anti-farm law protests have started. It’s having a major impact across life in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab. This post covers it in detail. Advanced warning: Very India specific post. Has nothing to do with systems…
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…