Netflix - AS 2906 - joined the RING today. Netflix offers movie streaming.

Users can connect to netflix01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in San Jose, CA, United States.

Afilias - AS 12041 - joined the RING today. Afilias contributed the following: “Afilias is the world’s leading provider of Internet infrastructure solutions that connect people to their data. Whether you need to connect to your domain name or the DNS, Afilias' technology connects you in a reliable, secure, stable, and globally available manner. "

Users can connect to afilias01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Nexellent - AS31424 - joined the RING today. Nexellent ag, headquartered in Glattbrugg, is a Swiss ICT service provider. The company has been providing business customers with future-oriented, Infrastructure as a Service communication solutions since 2004. nexellent can meet the highest demands in terms of security, availability and quality of service thanks to multiple data centres and an innovative and modular range of colocation hosting and housing services, servers, private clouds and computer networks.

Users can connect to nexellent01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Interxion, Glattbrugg, Switzerland.

This is an example one of the RING participants (eBay Classifieds Group) wanted to share with all RING participants.

Several weeks ago we (eBay Classifieds Group) encountered an issue with some customers coming from Denmark (more precise, TDC customers), having issues reaching websites in the eBay Classifieds Grou network. These issues were showing as a slow website, and packetloss to our network. This lasted for some time, but it didn’t escalate in time to me, so by the time it did, the issue was already gone.

Now I haven’t been following the connected member list for the NLNOG/RING project, but Job Snijders pointed me out that TDC does have a RING node!

Now Job showed me during that weekend while we had some drinks, his new cool tool on the ring, it was even better then what I did pitch to him some moons ago. Not just latency monitoring, but the NLNOG/RING project keeps track of the number of hops, and keeping archives of traceroutes. And it all presents it in a very nice interface.

Debugging:

First, looked up the actual issue at hand.

AMP Latency Measurement:

From 13:40 there is an increased jitter, and packet loss visible! So, let’s check out that cool graph that displays number of hops history.

AMP Path Analysis:

And we see increase in number of hops, now let’s take a look at the actual ‘traceroute’ history.

AMP Traceroute History:

Take a small look at 13:45 on August 1st, hey… why has the traceroute from ECG towards TDC changed into going over the AMS-IX platform instead of the usual Level3 path? We see the real cause at 14:00, the number 3 hop has become Novatel in Bulgary.

Now, a quick search in my mailbox reveals that Novatel recently connected to AMS-IX, also this is listed on the AMS-IX “connected” page.

Conclusion:

It seems Novatel went live at AMS-IX the day before, my idea is that they accidentally leaked their NTT routes via the AMS-IX routeservers, and had their NTT link congested by doing so. This might have been prevented if the AMS-IX routeservers would have done strict RPSL checking.

If you have any questions regarding the use of the tool, or question about this article, don’t hesitate to contact me: Maarten Moerman / mmoerman@ebay.com

Backbone uhf - AS 6775 & AS 44432 - joined the RING today. Backbone uhf is a backbone provider for ISP’s in Iceland with some operations in Switzerland

Users can connect to backbone01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Switzerland Users can connect to backbone02.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Iceland! (The RING has conquered a new country! :-)

Today ISC - AS1280 - joined the RING. To quote from their application form: “Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (ISC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation dedicated to supporting the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet - and the autonomy of its participants - by developing and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and operations.

ISC also provides a number of Operational Programs and Services that benefit users of the Internet directly and indirectly. Since 1994, ISC has operated F-Root (one of the 13 root DNS servers) as a public service to the Internet.”

RING-users can connect to isc01.ring.nlnog.net, which is hosted in CA, USA.

Kordia - AS24324 - joined the RING today. Kordia is an experienced trans-Tasman business that powers some of the most significant communications technologies in their part of the world (New Zealand). Thanks to Kordia the RING has conquered a 28th country!

RING users can connect to kordia01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Avalon, New Zealand.

Yesterday, Job Snijders presented the NLNOG RING at the RIPE 65 Plenary meeting. In his presentation he illustrated how fast the RING has grown (137 hosts in 123 networks and 27 countries at this moment) and, more importantly, how powerful the RING has become. Various tools make debugging network related problems a lot easier. In his presentation Job also demonstrated the new (currently beta) AMP tool, which can be used to detect various problems like packetloss, MTU issues and routability problems.

Job’s presentation was recorded, you can view it here. Of course, the slides are available for download as well.

If you’re interested in joining the NLNOG RING, please read the requirements on the main page and fill in the application form.

People visiting RIPE65 please visit the NLNOG RING BoF drink on Thursday at 18.00h. Location is tentatively Grand Ballroom IV-V but may change, please check the RIPE BoF page for confirmation.

HOSTING90 systems s.r.o. - AS 198171 - joined the RING today. HOSTING90 is a VPS provider - more information can be found on: http://www.hosting90.eu/

Users can connect to hosting90systems01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Prague, Czech Republic.

INIT7 - AS 13030 - joined the RING today. Swiss market leader in the distribution of IPv6, accredited member of RIPE (ch.kuenzler), a global force for our customers and the Internet community, socially and ethically active, and operator of the autonomous system AS13030 Init7 is all this and more!

Users can connect to initseven01.ring.nlnog.net, which is located in Opfikon, Switzerland.