Finally back in village location.
Was just looking around and saw BSNL having really crazy routing. I looked around and saw this:
NIXI Looking Glass - show ip bgp neighbors 218.100.48.15 routes Router: NIXI Delhi (Noida) Command: show ip bgp neighbors 218.100.48.15 routes Total number of prefixes 0 Clearly BSNL is NOT announcing any prefix at NIXI Delhi at all. Thus if one has to send packets to BSNL in North area either it will be via transit (Tata/VSNL) or via any other peering NIXI exchange in Mumbai or Chennai.
Super dull time here. No classes going on due to “TCS Placement session” at college and this makes me to sit in my room most of time of my day. Yesterday I tested connectivity to all 13 Global Root DNS Servers and found i root was giving issue.
Here’s a my yesterday’s traceroute to i root: traceroute to i.root-servers.net. (192.36.148.17), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 router.local (10.0.0.1) 1.470 ms 1.
Time for a quick followup blog post. On 26th April of this year I blogged about broken connectivity of F root server which was hosted in NIXI Chennai. Apart from that blog post, I did informed ISC which operates F root (NIXI was host on behalf of them in India). In my open email on APNIC mailing list, I got a reply from Network Operations Center of ISC that they will verify and will take necessary action.
NIXI i.e National Internet Exchange of India is well known for it’s inefficiency and for its bad policies. I am posting this blog post to discuss some of them. Bit of background: NIXI is one (and only) Indian IXP i.e Internet Exchange Point established in 2003 so as to facilitate peering between Indian ISPs. Before this, there were lot of cases when Indian ISP’s were connecting to each other from outside India in Singapore and Europe.
It has been an interesting week at village - dry weather, (ultra) dry classes, (boring) external seminars and more of depressing environment but one can always find some hope out of such depressing environment. Overall life here is colourful but one just needs to lookout for colours. :) One interesting case to report today - F root server has quite bad connectivity in India. Last week a friend asked me for traceroutes to all root servers and here’s what I saw when I did traceroute for F root from BSNL connection: