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Tracking Indian RPKI data

Anurag Bhatia
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.

APNIC Hackathon at APRICOT 2018

Anurag Bhatia
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: A tool for ranking CDNs - A tool based on RIPE Atlas data to rank CDNs based on latency across different regions.

Host a RIPE Atlas probe!

Anurag Bhatia
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 server - Noida anycast and updates

Anurag Bhatia
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!

IRINN & APNIC inetnum range confusion

Anurag Bhatia
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.