Test Lab Best Practices

2023-09-28 Thread Kenneth Vedder
Hello NANOG,

We have been struggling with firmware bugs from a specific router vendor. I
am looking to set up a test lab of our core network and a few remote site
routers.  Protocols would include SR-MPLS, ISIS, EVPN MPLS and L3VPN with a
little OSPF sprinkled in. I'd be grateful for any tips or resources anyone
has that might cover testing strategies and/or best practices.

Thanks,
Ken


Re: Contact for Hulu

2023-09-28 Thread Kenneth Vedder
I would also be thankful for a contact at Hulu, we've been having similar
issues to what Brad described.

Ken V
Amplex Internet

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> Subject: RE: SMTP-friendly VPS provider where I can also get a BGP
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> Unfortunately, Racknerd provides a majority of their services using a
> dedicated server hosting company (Colo Crossing) that is known for
> harboring spam and other malicious activity, so their IP space is generally
> either blacklisted, of very poor reputation, or in many cases, completely
> dropped at firewalls. Case in point, your message that originated from one
> of these IPs tripped up my workstation's local spam filtering plugin from
> ESET.
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> Tim
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> To: 'Daniel Corbe' ; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: [SPAM] RE: SMTP-friendly VPS provider where I can also get a BGP
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> I can't speak to the bgp feed as this seems like unnecessary complication
> to me, but I use https://www.racknerd.com/ for personal email/web hosting
> KVM VM's and have found them to be excellent. They have yearly black Friday
> specials (last years - https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/ ) that are
> very attractive. They don't block any ports on their US/Europe VM's. I use
> a primary pair in one city and rsync everything to a backup pair in another
> city (as well as home just to make sure). Not all cities can get V6 but
> most do.
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> -Original Message-
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> Daniel Corbe
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 11:09 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: SMTP-friendly VPS provider where I can also get a BGP feed
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> Hey all,
>
> I apologize if this isn't the right place to post this; however, I thought
> maybe the NANOG community would be able to point me in the right direction.
>
> I'm looking for a place that I can host a mailer.  My primary use case is
> a Mailman-style technical discussion list; much like NANOG but software
> related instead of network related: READ: non-commercial in nature.
>
> I'm currently a vultr customer, but they're refusing to unblock port 25 on
> my account.  I've tried explaining my use case but no matter who I talk to
> over there they just keep pointing me to their spam policy.
>
> Thanks!
> -Daniel
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> Operations: Any operational gotchas, lessons learned from an outage,
> details/reasons for a recent outage (how to improve TTR, tooling).
> Deployment: DNS config management and release process.
> Monitoring: Log ingestion pipeline, analytics infrastructure, anomaly
> detection.
> Scaling: DNS performance management and metrics. Increasing DNS Server
> Efficiency
> Security/Privacy: DNSSEC signing and validation, key storage, rollovers,
> qname minimization, DoH/DoT
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> The presentations can be either 10 or 20 minutes in length (plus 5
> minutes for Q). Proposals for in-person lightning presentations will
> be opened closer to the Workshop dates.
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> Workshop Milestones:
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> 2023-09-07 Submissions open via Indico
> 2023-11-22 Deadline