[uknof] Spoofer Report for UKNOF for Jun 2020

[CAIDA Spoofer Project]

In response to feedback from operational security communities,
CAIDA's source address validation measurement project
(https://spoofer.caida.org) is automatically generating monthly
reports of ASes originating prefixes in BGP for systems from which
we received packets with a spoofed source address.
We are publishing these reports to network and security operations
lists in order to ensure this information reaches operational
contacts in these ASes.

This report summarises tests conducted within gbr.

Inferred improvements during Jun 2020:
ASNName   Fixed-By
21472  SERVERHOUSE2020-06-10
2131512020-06-28

Further information for the inferred remediation is available at:
https://spoofer.caida.org/remedy.php

Source Address Validation issues inferred during Jun 2020:
ASNName   First-Spoofed Last-Spoofed
9009   M247  2017-01-10   2020-06-19
42689  Cablecom  2017-03-25   2020-06-26

Further information for these tests where we received spoofed
packets is available at:
https://spoofer.caida.org/recent_tests.php?country_include=gbr_block=1

Please send any feedback or suggestions to spoofer-i...@caida.org

[uknof] A new community chat platform for UKNOF

[Keith Mitchell]

UKNOF is here to help our community of network engineers run their
operations more smoothly. A tool that's often useful for both
infrastructure operations and remote participation at industry events is
a real-time chat platform.

This has been provided on a somewhat ad-hoc basis during UKNOF's 15-year
history, mainly over IRC using the #uknof channel on terahertz.net.

While IRC has its place (& will probably never die :-), it's also clear
there are *many* modern alternatives. We wanted to serve the community
better with one of these, and in a way which would be inclusive and
appealing to more than just IRC die-hards.

A new chat platform is also timely for our pandemic age:

- to better enable remote participation at virtualUKNOF meetings
- to help co-ordinate operations while the Internet's infrastructure
  is under unique pressures
- co-ordination of UKNOF volunteers
- to provide a community gathering place

After some internal review, we decided this would be best provided using
the Mattermost chat platform, which has many modern features like mobile
app, encryption, and rich media support; is based on a cross-platform
open-source code base; and does not lock us into any single provider.

The new Mattermost server,  was tested out by
the UKNOF meetings Crew for internal co-ordination during the May
virtualUKNOF, and it worked very well.

We would thus like to open up this service to the entire UKNOF
community, you can sign up for a Public account here:


https://chat.uknof.org.uk/signup_user_complete/?id=jinormi7y3869884s5ri96sgfc

and find various client apps here:

https://mattermost.com/download/

A REMINDER that the UKNOF Respect Policy:

https://uknof.uk/respect

applies every bit as much to our Mattermost (& IRC) chat as everything
else that UKNOF does online and offline, and you are bound to this by
signing up to any of our activities or platforms.

We realise there are *many* chat platforms out there, and we're never
going to please everybody whichever is chosen, but believe it's better
to provide something that's going to be the best and most cost-effective
use to the most people. The IRCers among you will have also noticed that
we have as a temporary migration measure bridged between #uknof and the
"UKNOF" Channel on Mattermost.

If you need help getting up and running, please contact
.

Our Mattermost server is being operated by the same UK-based provider
that operates UKNOF's other cloud infrastructure, Mythic Beasts, and you
can expect the same high standards of engineering and privacy from them
that you have for other UKNOF services. Like most UKNOF activities, this
service is funded for open community public benefit by our Patrons,
Sponsors, Friends and event attendees. We hope you will find it useful,
and find a way to join them in supporting this and our other activities
at UKNOF.

Keith Mitchell
UKNOF Board