Announcements and Updates – Page 17

Mail: Blocked Attachment Types

Post author By Roller Network
Post date April 28, 2015

This has long been on the feature request list: attachment types. We’ve implemented some code to start this off with checking a static list of attachment extensions to reject. In addition to this list we’ll also be rejecting double extensions (like .exe.zip) and extensions with non-alphanumeric characters. Right now we’ve just deployed this as logging only to observe the results before switching on the rejecting portion of the code.

The rejected list of extensions will be:

chm, ade, adp, app, asp, bas, bat, cab, cer, chm, cmd, com, cpl, crt, csh, der, exe, fxp, gadget, hlp, hta, inf, ins, isp, its, js, jse, ksh, lib, lnk, mad, maf, mag, mam, maq, mar, mas, mat, mau, mav, maw, mda, mdb, mde, mdt, mdw, mdz, msc, msh, msh1, msh2, mshxml, msh1xml, msh2xml, msi, msp, mst, ops, pcd, pif, plg, prf, prg, pst, reg, scf, scr, sct, shb, shs, sys, ps1, ps1xml, ps2, ps2xml, psc1, psc2, tmp, url, vb, vbe, vbs, vsmacros, vsw, vxd, ws, wsc, wsf, wsh, xnk

In the future we will expand this in the account control center by allowing this feature to be disabled, add custom extensions to the list, and an inverse option of reject all extensions except a list of approved ones (as defined by the user). For now, contact support to request deactivation of this feature if you don’t want it applied to your domains.

UPDATE: Attachment extension name blocking is now live.

UPDATE July 7, 2016: We’ve added “docm”, “xlsm”, and “pptm” to the list.

Announcements IPv6

L-Root Instance now in Reno

Post author By Roller Network
Post date April 6, 2015

We’re pleased to announce we’re now providing an L-Root instance in Reno, NV to our customers and peers, including TahoeIX peers.

Fun Stuff TahoeIX

On The Map with J Root

Post author By Roller Network
Post date March 14, 2015

We’re on the map with J Root. Yep, that’s us in Reno.

Access to J root is available through peering at TahoeIX and automatically to Roller Network customers since Rollernet already peers.

Announcements Fun Stuff

Improvements Through IX Peering

Post author By Roller Network
Post date February 3, 2015

Roller Network is one of the first participants of the Tahoe Internet Exchange, or TahoeIX. We announce our routes and our customer’s routes to the exchange, and accept all routes from the exchange. This morning TahoeIX welcomed Packet Clearing House to the peering fabric. While we’re still working turning up some direct peering sessions with PCH, their peering with the TahoeIX IPv4 route server is already up. We’ll receive routes directly and through the common route server.

Why peering? Here’s a perfect example of an improvement.

Traffic to a peered DNS root now looks like this:

$ mtr e.root-servers.net -4 -c 2 -r
HOST: whiskers                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net    0.0%     2    0.7   0.6   0.6   0.7   0.1
  2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net           0.0%     2    0.6   0.6   0.5   0.6   0.1
  3.|-- e.root-servers.net         0.0%     2    0.9   0.8   0.7   0.9   0.1

While traffic to a DNS root without peering takes the long, scenic route:

$ mtr b.root-servers.net -4 -c 2 -r
HOST: whiskers                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net    0.0%     2    0.4   0.4   0.4   0.5   0.1
  2.|-- core1-gi3-3.rollernet.net  0.0%     2    0.6   0.6   0.6   0.6   0.0
  3.|-- border0-gi0-1.rollernet.n  0.0%     2    1.2   1.2   1.2   1.2   0.0
  4.|-- 12.116.94.237              0.0%     2   15.1  31.5  15.1  47.9  23.2
  5.|-- 12.122.160.30              0.0%     2   12.4  12.2  12.0  12.4   0.3
  6.|-- cr2.sffca.ip.att.net       0.0%     2   11.7  12.6  11.7  13.4   1.1
  7.|-- 12.122.149.137             0.0%     2   13.7  13.7  13.6  13.7   0.1
  8.|-- 192.205.37.58              0.0%     2   12.0  12.1  12.0  12.3   0.3
  9.|-- ae-9.r22.snjsca04.us.bb.g  0.0%     2   12.2  11.9  11.6  12.2   0.4
 10.|-- ae-7.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.g  0.0%     2   23.2  23.4  23.2  23.6   0.3
 11.|-- ae-2.r05.lsanca03.us.bb.g  0.0%     2   24.4  23.7  23.0  24.4   1.0
 12.|-- ntt-los-nettos-usc.ln.net  0.0%     2   23.9  23.6  23.3  23.9   0.4
 13.|-- isi-vlan2009.ln.net        0.0%     2   24.0  23.9  23.8  24.0   0.1
 14.|-- b.root-servers.net         0.0%     2   24.4  25.7  24.4  27.0   1.9

The improvement should be quite obvious.

UPDATE: More prefixes from Afilias were added this morning.

$ mtr -c 1 -r b2.org.afilias-nst.org -6
HOST: whiskers                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- 2607:fe70:0:beef::1        0.0%     1    0.5   0.5   0.5   0.5   0.0
  2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net           0.0%     1    0.8   0.8   0.8   0.8   0.0
  3.|-- b2.org.afilias-nst.org     0.0%     1    0.7   0.7   0.7   0.7   0.0

$ mtr -c 1 -r b2.org.afilias-nst.org -4
HOST: whiskers                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net    0.0%     1    0.4   0.4   0.4   0.4   0.0
  2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net           0.0%     1    0.6   0.6   0.6   0.6   0.0
  3.|-- b2.org.afilias-nst.org     0.0%     1    1.0   1.0   1.0   1.0   0.0

Announcements Changes

WiMAX Broadband Discontinued

Post author By Roller Network
Post date January 20, 2015

We’re officially discontinuing WiMAX broadband services in 2015.

This does not affect any customers on standard broadband or microwave services; those on WiMAX are explicitly noted as such in the account control center and on their invoices. The WiMAX customers were always a special case for locations where we couldn’t reach with our standard service. Affected customers will be contacted directly as we work through the list to determine if they can be converted to standard service since coverage has increased since the WiMAX customers were originally installed.

Since we are completely discontinuing WiMAX services we’ve also taken steps to remove it from our website and from the internet access service level agreement. We will not be grandfathering or retaining any WiMAX-only accounts.