BGP.guru

BGP.guru

Nerd blog.

22 May 2016

ESXi 6up2

I recently installed VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 02 aka VMware vSphere Hypervisor on a server, and using the new VMware Host Client at https://hostip/ui/ was able to fully set up a Debian 8/Jessie guest using only the trial license. The HTML console was quite functional, and the OSX Remote Console application also launched and connected correctly and quickly.
07 May 2016

Load Balancing DNS with dnsdist

I first came across dnsdist in a NANOG post in the discussion of exploitation of a BIND DOS bug last summer. Jared Mauch had recommended dnsdist to easily implement DNS backend diversity.
13 Apr 2016

AS395089

Yesterday morning the company I own, Hextet Systems, was assigned AS 395089 from ARIN's pool of ASNs. By mid-afternoon I had turned up BGP with my first uptream for IPv6, and was advertising a /44. By 11PM I had finished setting up IPv4 BGP as well and was advertising my /24.
29 Mar 2016

IXP Peering Lan Hijacks

Earlier this month the local Internet Exchange I'm involved with received some reports of spam coming from the MBIX Peering LAN IP space.
19 Feb 2016

BGP and Game Performance

The makers of League of Legends, Riot Games, have posted a very interesting engineering blog about how they've engineered their AS for optimal game performance.