Kludge of a kludge

Ok, Netflix back up and IPv6 still operational for other things. But what a kludge of a kludge, Bind + rules that edit AAAA records out for one specific domain.

Shady cloud from Korso

Industrial Korso: The place to get your fix.......ed IP address. Changed my routing to go via Hetzner's new data center because $ISP no longer offers v6. Cloud instance 3€ per month, addresses and prefixes 1€.

1000 mbit/s

This is the n:th step of the fiber project: bugs in the netflix & IPv6 tunnel hack... the app works but browser version doesn't, apparently due missing domains... the fix will have to wait until I get home from this trip though.

In other news, I ordered the 1000mbit/s connection over the fiber now, at 59€/month. But had to leave home before I was able to see the fiber lit.

Ludicrous speed. Delivered.

It is a small step in the fiber installation project, but a giant step in household Internet speed. Switched the router from VDSL to fiber and reconfigured v6 tunnels to new addresses. It's been a long process, started 18 months ago. And still some loose ends to fix, but running ok-ish now. I had seven days left before they would have disconnected the VDSL.

The year of pentamerous 404s

Happy 5x404!

(Published on 31.12.2020)

Fixing roof leaks with a ... webcam?

I've been having roof leaks, with an unidentified cause. Now, the leak is perhaps in control. Fingers crossed at least. Likely reason identified, protection installed (temporary; permanent later), drying process in progress, measurements next week. And obviously, webcam installed to monitor the situation.

IoT rebooting...

"I rebooted the upstairs access points and then the downstairs weight scale started working again" #iot

DNS and security

Here are some of our thoughts on DNS and its security challenges. New encrypted DNS query protocols (DNS over HTTPS, RFC 8484) help but at the same time we also need to be concerned about how much information we're sharing with DNS resolution infrastructure. This is a good example of where communications security alone is not necessarily going to solve all problems.

Ericsson: "DNS Security and why it's time for change"

Covid-19 and the Internet

This is a great article on some of the things that we take today for granted. Imagine if we had run into the Coronavirus crisis in the 1980s, and even the libraries would have closed! It would have been quite a different experience, and none of us would be able to do the work-from-home that we are now doing.

But, the really interesting bit is the technical architecture that allows the network to take such immense growth and swings in usage patterns, as it has in the last few decades, and is now experiencing rapidly during the crisis. The distributed, bottom-up collaborative design, adaptivity, support for wildly different traffic situations, and hard work & plenty of equipment to support the massive use of Internet today all played a role. We need to build on this even further.

New York Times: "Your Internet is working. Thank these Cold War-era pioneers who designed it to handle almost anything"

Zürich QUIC Interop

QUIC interop and meeting in Zürich, at the Google offices (thanks Brian etc!) There are 15 implementations to test with the other 15 and for each test,19 main features to look at. That's a lot of tests but given the role of these implementations in various operating systems and network equipment, it also needs to work :-) From my point of view this feels more focused on the corner cases than before, so maybe the effort is nearing the end. Although there's probably error cases of the corner cases to still look at :-)