And here goes first blog post of 2018. Last few months went busy with some major changes in personal life. :) I looked into Amazon’s India connectivity with various ASNs tonight. Here’s how it looks like. (Note: Jump to bottom most to skip traces and look at the summary data). Traceroutes Amazon India to Vodafone India traceroute to 118.185.107.1 (118.185.107.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 ec2-52-66-0-128.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com (52.66.0.128) 21.861 ms ec2-52-66-0-134.
Yesterday Google’s Bangladeshi website google.com.bd was hacked and this happened via DNS. It was reported on the bdNOG mailing list at morning in a thread started by Mr Omar Ali.
This clearly shows how authoritative DNS for “com.bd.” (which is same as bd. btw) was poisoned and was reflecting attackers authoritative DNS. Later Mr Farhad Ahmed posted a screenshot of google.com.bd showing hackers page:
Later Mr Sumon Ahmed mentioned that it happened because web frontend of .
Yesterday I had a discussion with a friend from Airtel after long time. For some strange reason discussion topic was changed to old statements from Bharti Airtel’s executives that companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo etc should pay to ISPs like Airtel for “data interconnection”. The argument goes more for Google then any other company. Statements from Airtel can be found here and here. The argument? Companies like Airtel who have built a “physical infrastructure” feel that companies like Google should pay to them since they are putting so much of traffic on their networks.