BGP.guru

BGP.guru

A Nerd blog.

31 Oct 2015

4 ASNs Disappear in Atomic Aggregate

AS7122 enables atomic aggregate on /16 announcements, accidentally suppressing four Manitoba customer ASNs (21876, 23001, 32433, 54937) from global routing table—analyzing route withdrawals via RIPE collectors and multihoming implications.
10 Sep 2015

Running Smokeping on Jessie

Fixing Smokeping after Debian Wheezy to Jessie upgrade: Apache 2.2 to 2.4 migration breaks conf.d structure, requiring manual symlinks in conf-enabled directory for smokeping and OTRS configurations.
05 Sep 2015

Nagios Logs, Handy One-Liner

Converting Nagios log timestamps to human-readable format using Perl one-liner: piping epoch timestamps through localtime() substitution for on-the-fly date conversion in monitoring logs and BGP data.
01 Aug 2015

Working with ARINs Route Registry

Creating RPSL objects in ARIN's Internet Routing Registry: setting up MNTNER with MD5 authentication, generating route/inetnum objects via email templates, and validating IRR entries for BGP prefix filtering automation.
12 Jun 2015

Removing Stubborn Trash Items

Fixing macOS Yosemite trash items that won't delete: using CLI to remove immutable flags with chflags -R nouchg and force deletion when GUI methods fail.