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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
