A developer friend recently asked me about the design of redundancy on servers. He had a valid point – running BGP can be tricky and expensive since most colo & datacenter host would offer simple static routing & usually with…
Updates from life
No blog post since Aug 2021. Last few months extremely (and happily) busy. I got blessed with a baby boy in September and since then being happily busy. Gotta resume blog posts here!
Glue records ≠ A record replacement
Someone recently reached out to me discussing DNS and as that person started taking deep dive in DNS, he came across the glue records. He asked me “Why not just use A records on a sub-zone with glue record at…
Why Indian internet traffic routes from outside of India?
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,…
Designing high capacity home network
For the last few months, we have been working on setting up a dedicated room for my home office usage. This gives me the opportunity to plan for changes in the home network. Key design ideas Cabling should support needs…