Posts from ‘April, 2011’

UPDATE: Atom D510 Servers as RRs

We’ve been working with the two Atom D510 servers we intend to use as dedicated route reflectors and came across a small problem we though prudent to share. (Original post: Atom D510 Servers as Route Reflectors) It’s not a showstopper, rather it should be classified as “annoying”. The Atom servers come with on board IPMI [...]

APNIC First to Run Out of IPv4 Addresses

Someone had to be first, and it looks like it’s APNIC. Earlier this year all of the regional registries were given a final /8, and APNIC is the first to reach the end game. Have you thought about your IPv6 plans lately?   Dear APNIC community We are writing to inform you that as of [...]

Where we are with DNSSEC

From time to time we get questions on DNSSEC support. There are many parts to DNSSEC, but here’s we we stand as of this post: Our Secondary DNS service (which is based on BIND9) has supported DNSSEC for several years and we have received confirmed reports from some of our customers that use the secondary [...]

Gigabit Ethernet, More RAM for Dedicated Servers

Over the next month or two we will be migrating our network to pure gigabit Ethernet. All servers – even the smallest Atom dedicated server – will be given gigabit uplinks. Because this change involves moving the cross connects on our side, we will be contacting all dedicated server and colocation customers individually to arrange [...]

Atom D510 Servers as Route Reflectors

We’re provisioning a pair of our Atom D510 dedicated servers to be used as OpenBSD BGP route reflectors within our network core. Over the last month we’ve been testing this setup with great success on a spare D510, so we went ahead and ordered a pair to dedicated to the task. In the pictures you [...]