I’ve been pretty lazy recently so it’s been quite a long time since I’ve used a Cisco terminal server – or at least since I switched to Linux as my Desktop OS. Having never telnet-ed to a terminal server from a Linux box before, I bumped into a bit of difficulty during a lab session [...]

UNIX flavoured boxes tend to be a pretty cost-effective solution when the cost of a $10,000 (or more) router from <favourite vendor> is too much to justify. After all, for the same price point, you can usually get an off-the-shelf server that has more RAM and CPU power than most mid-range routers – great for [...]

Finally got round to watching this film after downloading it quite some time ago. If you haven’t gotten it yet, you can get it here – ( stealthisfilm.com ) – and yes, it’s free (as in both free speech and free lunch).
The film is largely a documentary on the reality of filesharing and [...]

There’s been a large number of compromises related to PHPBB2 recently. One of the most common is that via an SQL injection attack, people accessing the Bulletin Board get forwarded to a rogue page where they (unwittingly) get asked to install more trojans and other malware on their system.
Here’s a write up on the issue [...]

Apparently Cogent’s depeering of Telia wasn’t the only thing happening yesterday.
On a completely unrelated note, Africa Online Kenya has had its routes hijacked by Above.net.
Note: Hijacked – In the most unintentional, accidental sense of the word
Considering that Above.net (AS 6461) has far better connectivity than Africa Online (AS 36915), the AS Path length to [...]

It’s been a long time since I last posted anything.
Nothing very interesting has happened recently but just as a point of interest, Telia and Cogent have depeered each other. ( gigaom.com ) The view from various route servers seem to support this claim.

route-views.oregon-ix.net>show clock
03:35:25.628 UTC Sat Mar 15 2008
route-views.oregon-ix.net>show ip bgp regexp _1299_174_

route-views.oregon-ix.net>

route-views.optus.net.au>show clock
03:34:28.907 UTC [...]

Routing Information Service (RIS) ( ripe.net ) is a beta tool from RIPE NCC.
Essentially, it’s a web based tool that integrates many of the network information lookup services that are frequently used. It’s a little slow when it comes to generating reports on large Autonomous Systems that are rather dynamic (such as those providing transit [...]