Worth Reading: The Internet is not Young

26 April 2023


The Internet not quite as young and spritely as you might’ve thought. Apple’s iPhone, released in 2007, is now 16 years old, and YouTube is an ageing teenager at 18, after its initial release in 2005, and these two examples are relatively recent additions to the Internet.

Worth Reading: Is the public cloud ready for IPv6?

26 April 2023


The goal is to be able to create a network environment with subnets, an access control list, be able to create peering between cloud accounts (for the same cloud provider) and get ingress access to our cloud environment (either from the public Internet or from our on-premise data centre).

Worth Reading: How to create netstat aliases to help focus on network activity

25 April 2023


The netstat command provides a tremendous amount on information on network activity. With the -s option (netstat -s), it will display summaries for various protocols such as packets received, active connections, failed connections and a lot more.

Worth Reading: The Semiconductor Industry and the Future of the World Economy (II)

25 April 2023


For many decades, US semiconductor policy was relatively lax. The idea was that the US could always “run faster” and stay two generations ahead of its competitors with semiconductors (this strategy was called “sliding scale”).

Worth Reading: The Problem Of 5G Hype

24 April 2023


What is most striking is how few of those touting 5G (or “private 5G”) is how little technical detail there is beyond saying it is the next generation of cellular protocols.

Worth Reading: LLMs and Phishing

24 April 2023


Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to respond or click on the link than the usual spam. It’s an interesting experiment, and the results are likely to vary wildly based on the details of the experiment.

Worth Reading: VPP Stats

20 April 2023

But there’s another way, using a metrics and time series system called Borgmon, originally designed by Google but popularized by Soundcloud in an open source interpretation called Prometheus.

Worth Reading: Reflections on certificates, Part 1

20 April 2023


In this post, I argue that understanding the inherent (but often hidden) complexity, the trust relationships and the tradeoffs of certificates used in a given environment can lead to better decision making and to more efficient operations.

Worth Reading: Navigating a BGP zombie outbreak on Juniper routers

19 April 2023


Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing issues can be a headache for network engineers. However, when those issues start exhibiting zombie-like behaviour, it’s time to take a closer look.

Worth Reading: [Podcast] The rise (and potential fall) of LEO

19 April 2023


In this episode of PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications and the effects they are having on global Internet connectivity.