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The Week in Internet News: Small Routing Error Has Big Consequences

Bad route: A small routing error led to Internet outages in the Northeastern United States on June 24, Inc.com reports. Small network services provider DQE Communications shared inaccurate routing information with Verizon, which then passed it along to the wider network. Internet services were flaky for about two hours, with Verizon Fios phone and Internet services in Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and other states affected, the Washington Post said. Server issues also affected Reddit, Twitch, and video gaming service Discord.

Attacking encryption? U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Council recently discussed ways to prohibit companies from offering customers unbreakable encryption, Politico reports. Officials debated whether to ask Congress to effectively outlaw end-to-end encryption, according to anonymous sources.

Embrace the dark side: Government entities looking to improve Internet speeds in their areas should consider dark fiber when it’s available, advises AmericanCityandCounty.com. Switching to dark fiber can offer both performance improvement and cost savings, but the transition can demand a major overhaul.

Service restored, for one guy: Sudan’s three-week Internet shutdown keeps going, except for one lawyer, who won a lawsuit against telecom operator Zain Sudan over the blackout ordered by the country’s military rulers, the Continue reading

BrandPost: How does David battle Goliath? With great strategy and the technology to implement it

The classic story of David battling Goliath resonates with any successful entrepreneur. At some point, small companies must confront large, entrenched rivals. Those big companies possess clear advantages: brand recognition, economies of scale, financial leverage and many others. Customers need a compelling reason to switch providers.How do would-be Davids compete? They need to develop their own modernized slingshot. Technology provides virtually endless possibilities for competitive advantage. Like David, though, you need to size up your opponent and adopt the right strategy before choosing your weapon.In the United Kingdom, a company called Ocado did just that in the exotic, sophisticated market of … grocery stores.To read this article in full, please click here

Network Break 241: Extreme Buys Aerohive; Sloppy BGP Plumbing Causes Route Leak

Extreme Networks spends approx. $227 million to buy Aerohive Networks to add a cloud-managed WLAN to its portfolio, a route leak resulted in cascading failures on June 24th, Oracle will retire Dyn managed DNS services, Mist Systems rolls out a new 11ax AP, and more tech news on today's Network Break podcast.

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Leaving Comments in Code Expressed Artefacts

Week of 24th June 2019 was interesting. We had #ferrogate which made a lot of network engineers very unhappy and also an ongoing social media thread on code comments. For this discussion, I’m going with the title of "leaving comments in code expressed artefacts" because code represents more than writing software. I feel quite passionately about this having been on the raw end of no code comments and also being guilty of leaving plenty of crappy and unhelpful comments too.

The Mystic Arts

Let’s set a scene. You’ve had a long day and you’re buckled in for what can only be described as a mentally exhausting night. The system architecture is clearly formed in your head and you’re beginning to see issues ahead of time. You can’t quite justify any premature optimisation, but you know this current design has a ceiling. You also know there are system wide intricacies that are not obvious at the component level.

Normality in these scenarios is to insert context based comments, which make perfect sense at 2am, but next day 9am exhausted you may be confused as to what on earth happened in the early hours. We’ve all been there.

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BrandPost: Three Support Trends to Fuel Business Advantage

Who hasn’t had an infuriating support experience as a customer? We’ve all been there. Waiting on the phone. Repeating details. Being passed like a hot potato from one agent to the next. Has no one in the universe ever had or dealt with our same issue before? It can be frustrating, to say the least. And we’re shell-shocked the next time we need to reach out for customer support.There’s a light at the end of the tunnel, though. Before we get there, let’s first consider why this is happening. If we look at the support landscape, we can see that it’s changing: The technology we use is changing. Think about how technology has changed over the last few years. Ten years ago, we didn’t have iPads. Now we have universal connectivity. And behind simple interfaces, underlying technologies are increasingly complex. The people we support are changing. ​End users are more mobile. People can work from anywhere, and they take their digital lives with them. ​And with nearly unlimited – and searchable – data, people are consuming information in a variety of ways. Customer expectations are changing. The more immediate and available our technology becomes, the more Continue reading

Datanauts 167: Patch Now Or Later? The Delicate Art Of Vulnerability Management

Security expert Zoë Rose beams aboard the Datanauts podcast to discuss the intricacies of vulnerability management, including how to asses risks, when and what to patch, the importance of input from multiple stakeholders, compensating controls, and more.

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Creating VyOS ISO Image

There are several ways to get an VyOS ISO image. Firstly, you can buy subscription, so you will have an access to LTS VyOS ISO images. The LTS images are also available for VyOS contributors or evangelists with perpetual 1-year access. The third option involves building ISO image itself. Building involves cloning VyOS repository with git, taking care of required dependencies and finally compiling from sources. Either you need Debian as a base and manage dependencies manually or you can compile using the docker method and Debian is not needed.

Using the Dockerfile you create your own Docker container that is used to build a VyOS ISO image or other required VyOS packages. The Dockerfile contains some of the most used packages needed to build a VyOS ISO, a qemu image, and several of the submodules.

1. Install Docker CE

We are going to install Docker CE on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (bionic).

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common git
$ curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic stable"
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install docker-ce
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Announcing an Executive Director for the Internet Society Foundation

Photo of Sarah Armstrong

Last year we established the Internet Society Foundation, with a plan to make clearer the Internet Society’s grant-making activities, and distinguish them from Internet Society programmes. We announced that we would develop the Foundation over the course of the following year.

Since then, we have introduced the Internet Society Foundation’s new website and opened up the process for applications from ISOC Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the Beyond the Net Grants Programme, which is now housed within the Foundation. This now includes the full range of Beyond the Net Small, Medium, and Large Grants.

In parallel with moving the Beyond the Net Programme, we have been searching for a leader for the Foundation. I am pleased to announce our selection. 

Sarah Armstrong starts in her new role as the Foundation’s Executive Director today, July 1. She brings a wealth of experience to us, having built a career in non-profit, humanitarian, and international development work over many years.

Please join me in extending a warm Internet Society welcome to Sarah. I am sure she will play a key role in ensuring that our financial support for others’ activities is focused and effective. I look forward to a Continue reading

Tempered Networks simplifies secure network connectivity and microsegmentation

The TCP/IP protocol is the foundation of the internet and pretty much every single network out there. The protocol was designed 45 years ago and was originally only created for connectivity. There’s nothing in the protocol for security, mobility, or trusted authentication.The fundamental problem with TCP/IP is that the IP address within the protocol represents both the device location and the device identity on a network. This dual functionality of the address lacks the basic mechanisms for security and mobility of devices on a network.This is one of the reasons networks are so complicated today. To connect to things on a network or over the internet, you need VPNs, firewalls, routers, cell modems, etc. and you have all the configurations that come with ACLs, VLANs, certificates, and so on. The nightmare grows exponentially when you factor in internet of things (IoT) device connectivity and security. It’s all unsustainable at scale.To read this article in full, please click here

Tempered Networks simplifies secure network connectivity and microsegmentation

The TCP/IP protocol is the foundation of the internet and pretty much every single network out there. The protocol was designed 45 years ago and was originally only created for connectivity. There’s nothing in the protocol for security, mobility, or trusted authentication.The fundamental problem with TCP/IP is that the IP address within the protocol represents both the device location and the device identity on a network. This dual functionality of the address lacks the basic mechanisms for security and mobility of devices on a network.This is one of the reasons networks are so complicated today. To connect to things on a network or over the internet, you need VPNs, firewalls, routers, cell modems, etc. and you have all the configurations that come with ACLs, VLANs, certificates, and so on. The nightmare grows exponentially when you factor in internet of things (IoT) device connectivity and security. It’s all unsustainable at scale.To read this article in full, please click here

Response to “Certifications Are Not A Big Deal. Stop Being a Princess About It.”

In a post which now appears to have been deleted, Greg Ferro got right to the point in his article Response: Certifications Are Not A Big Deal. Stop Being a Princess About It.. The majority of this response was written while Greg’s post was still active, but I had to come back and inject more context after I spotted on June 30, 2019 that the post had become unavailable.

To save you digging in the WayBackMachine, the history to Greg’s post as I understand it is that Greg made some comments in Episode 238 of the Packet Pushers’ Network Break suggesting that vendor certifications were trivial. A listener evidently gave some strong feed back disagreeing with this, and so in Episode 239 of the Packet Pushers’ Network Break Greg responded to that feedback, and reiterated his position about certification study, specifically framed around Cisco’s CCNP. Greg made some reasonable points; that the certification programs from the vendors are not designed to teach fundamentals in the same way that, say, a computer science degree might do, and that the aim is really to make money for the vendor, and reduce their tech support costs, and as such the vendor certification education Continue reading

Third Time’s a Charm (A brief history of a gay marriage)

Third Time’s a Charm (A brief history of a gay marriage)

Happy Pride from Proudflare, Cloudflare’s LGBTQIA+ employee resource group. We wanted to share some stories from our members this month which highlight both the struggles behind the LGBTQIA+ rights movement and its successes. This first story is from Lesley.

The moment that crystalised the memory of that day…crystal blue afternoon, bright-coloured autumn leaves, borrowed tables, crockery and cutlery, flowers arranged by a cousin, cake baked by a neighbour, music mixed by a friend... our priest/rabbi a close gay friend with neither  yarmulke nor collar. The venue, a backyard kitty-corner at the home my wife grew up in. Love and good wishes in abundance from a community that supports us and our union. And in the middle of all that, my wife… turning to me and smiling, grass stains on the bottom of her long cream wedding dress after abandoning her heels and dancing barefoot in the grass. As usual, a microphone in hand, bringing life and laughter to all with her charismatic quips.

This was the fall of 2002 and same-sex marriage was legal in 0 of the 50 United States.

Third Time’s a Charm (A brief history of a gay marriage)
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