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Jon Brewer for NSRC presented at NZNOG on the pacific networking scene. He did a really good job of showing how the pacific floor is covered by a mesh of fibre connecting the developed economies, but they have bypassed many of the smaller island economies. There are sound economic reasons…
Tim Nagy from Juniper presented on the virtual router model. This is when you take commodity hardware (PCs) and run a virtualized router image on it, to provide you with the same kind of functionality a real dedicated hardware router would do, but hopefully in a more scaleable manner for…
Dean Pemberton gave an impassioned talk on behalf of Andy Linton, about mapping the participants in peering at exchange points (IXP). The fundamental problem is that in NZ, a lot of local peering participants have not bothered to participate in http://www.peeringdb.com listings for the location. It lists only 20 participants…
Jed Laundry gave a brief impassioned call-to-arms. We need to stop expecting vendors to encode different systems and sell us different CPE when the actual need is for commonality, not difference. The way out is to push OpenWRT as a common standard with add-ons, and give the community a chance…
The Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP, has been holding the Internet together, for more than two decades and nothing seems to be falling off the edge so far. As far as we can tell everyone can still see everyone else, assuming that they want to be seen, and the distributed…
The Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is one of the most critical components of today’s Internet. It’s the engine that ensures that when your application passes a packet into the network, the network is able to pass it onward to its intended destination. This routing protocol is the glue that…
The 12th August 2014 was widely reported as a day when the Internet collapsed. Despite the sensational media reports the following day, the condition was not fatal, and perhaps it could be more reasonably reported that some parts of the Internet were having a bad hair day. Media Reports about…
In around 1990 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) was alerted to a looming problem: long before the Internet was a commercial reality it looked like we would hit two really solid walls if we wanted to make the Internet scale to a global communications system. The first problem was that…
At APNIC Labs we’ve been working on developing a new approach to navigating through some of our data sets the describe aspects of IPv6 deployment, the use of DNSSEC and some measurements relating to the current state of BGP.
I’ve often heard that security is hard. And good security is very hard. Despite the best of intentions, and the investment of considerable care and attention in the design of a secure system, sometimes it takes the critical gaze of experience to sharpen the focus and understand what’s working and…
