Archive for December, 2008:

Internet broken for ASN32 speakers today.


Published on December 10th, 2008
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Not trying to point fingers or name-and-shame, just to raise the profile of a nasty little bug handling breaches of RFC4893.  This post is basically shaped from a message I posted to nanog earlier.
AS196629 (3.21 in asdot) announce 91.207.218.0/23.  Experienced eyes will notice that this is quite a large as number.  It’s a ‘new’ 4-byte [...]

2011 – An addressing odyssey. Preparing enterprise for IPv6.


Published on December 4th, 2008
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Yesterday I gave a talk to Sheffield GeekUp on preparing enterprises for IPv6 [download].  The premise of the talk was :

IPv4 addresses are scarse, and at current consumption rates, the IANA pool of free v4 addresses will be gone at the start of 2011.
This starts a “Post IPv4 world” where the IPv4 internet continues to [...]