(old) L-root DNS Server "stolen" (for a short time)

After shutdown of the old L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET the IP address formerly associated with it, the IP continued to answer requests. More informations can be found at the ICANN Blog [http://blog.icann.org/?p=309] UPDATE: Before bothering around, if you read the ICANN Blog [http://blog.icann.org/…

Routing Suite in an ISP environment?

Searching for an alternative for our old Cisco Border Router we are evaluating some software routing suites on "normal" server hardware. First we tried Vyatta [http://www.vyatta.com/products/index.php], but the routing software frequently crashed completely. Maybe this is fixed with VC4 Alpha 1, but we didn't…

Our Prefix did hit the routing table

On Friday at 11:47:19 +01:00 our prefix did hit the BGP routing tables .... So AS20646 managed to fix their filters. Also the reverse delegation was set up today, so we took another step forward.…

Routing Registry Training Course and irrtoolset

Last week I passed the course, what famous news. ;-) It is nice to know, what is needed to write ASN-, route-, aut-num objects and so on .. to autogenerate filterconfigs in theory. In the course, I got rtconfig segfaulting on the testground server. Yes .. thats good point to start. :( This…