Blogs

01 Aug 2016
dnsdist with pdns recursors
PowerDNS makes a mighty fine authoritative, and also recursive DNS server. They also recently added a DNS-aware DNS load balancer. This article deals with load balancing multiple backend caches to keep all of them hot and working the most efficiently.
15 Jul 2016
A BGP Slash Command
Building a Slack /bgp slash command using custom API at api.hextet.net: integrating BGP lookups, whois, and looking glass functionality directly into Slack channels via web API POST integration.
22 May 2016
ESXi 6up2
VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 improvements: using HTML5 VMware Host Client for full VM provisioning without Windows vSphere client, functional browser-based console, fixed macOS Remote Console launching, and no Flash required for administration.
07 May 2016
Load Balancing DNS with dnsdist
I first came across dnsdist in a NANOG post in the discussion of exploitation of a BIND DOS bug last summer. Jared Mauch had recommended dnsdist to easily implement DNS backend diversity.
13 Apr 2016
AS395089
Launching AS395089 for Hextet Systems from ARIN assignment to full BGP operations in one day: configuring IPv6 /44 and IPv4 /24 announcements, setting up PeeringDB/BGPmon accounts, creating IRR objects (aut-num, route/route6, AS-HEXTET as-set).

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