Ripe

So based on my friend - Abdul Awal’s tweet, I started looking at the latest RPKI ROA data for India. His Tweet came when I was in the middle of moving my blog from WordPress running over LXC containers to now WordPress over docker with Bitnami image. Bit of optimisation is still pending.

My routing security project with @nsrcworld & @mozilla started in Oct-19 to improve #RPKI deployment in South Asia+Myanmar. The two graphs show tremendous growth in RPKI and how #INDIA is lagging behind. @anurag_bhatia @RoutingMANRS @routinator3000 @AbuseIp @routingtablepod pic.twitter.com/HAb93XED5C

APNIC and RIPE NCC are doing a hackathon at APRICOT 2018. It just started today with some light interaction with various participating members yesterday. The theme of the hackathon is around IPv6. Many cool projects were suggested yesterday and teams started working today on certain shortlisted projects like:

1. A tool for ranking CDNs - A tool based on RIPE Atlas data to rank CDNs based on latency across different regions.
2. An IPv6 fun word game - Where anyone with a member account can suggest a word, and compete with other members who share more IPv6 addresses. It may include things like showcasing creative use of hexadecimal strings in an IPv6 address like Facebook popularly does face:b00c in their IPv6 pools.
3. IPv4 and IPv6 network security  - Study of attacks and overall security in IPv6. It would involve study and possibly a report on various attack vectors in the IPv6 domain.
4. A countrywide report on IPv6 deployment - I have yet to see how it is different from existing other reports.
5. IPv6 tunnel detection - Figuring out where tunnels used and figuring out the IPv4 address of those endpoints via a javascript plugin and possibly comparing IPv4 Vs IPv6 performance.

Let’s see how things go in next 12hrs. Super fun. Things should show up on Github in next few hours. :)

RIPE NCC is running an excellent project called RIPE Atlas from few years. This is one of largest distributed network measurement projects where thousands of users host small devices called RIPE Atlas Probes on their networks, home connections, datacenters etc. These probes do measurement under both public and private category and make that data available publicly for use by network engineers and helps in optimizing routing. This page shows detailed coverage statistics of the probes.  

K root in Noida seems to be not getting enough traffic from quite sometime and connectivity does seems bit broken. This is a blog post following up to Dyn’s excellent and detailed post about how TIC leaked the world famous 193.0.14.0/24 address space used by AS25152. It was good to read this post from RIPE NCC written by my friend Emile (and thanks to him for crediting me to signal about traffic hitting outside!)  

Last week I saw an interesting post at APNIC mailing list about IRINN (recently formed NIR in Indian region). 

Poster Jimmy was concerned about IRINN’s netname

inetnum: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255  
netname: IRINN-BROADCAST-ADDRESSES  
descr: Broadcast addresses  
descr: These addresses cannot (should not) be routed on the Internet.  
country: IN  
admin-c: IH1-IN  
tech-c: IH1-IN  
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE  
remarks: send spam and abuse report to info@irinn.in  
mnt-by: IRINN-HM  
mnt-irt: IRT-IRINNHM-IN  
mnt-lower: IRINN-HM  
changed: hostmaster2@irinn.in 20130420  
source: IRINN

As per first two lines entire IPv4 address space i.e 0.0.0.0/0 (ranging from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255) was put as IRINN-Broadcast while expected was IANA broadcast (since IANA sits on top in this RIR & NIR hierarchy).