Worth Reading: DNS query name minimization
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Securing Bitcoins with TREZOR
TREZOR is a hard wallet for securely storing crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Protection mechanisms like a mnemonic recovery seed, PIN, and encryption passphrase safeguard your assets (private keys) by requiring your physical interaction in order to make transactions. For those crypto noobies, I think it’s easiest to describe the TREZOR functionality […]
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App Highlight: Hardenize
Hardenize is a comprehensive security tool that continuously monitors the security and configuration of your domain name, email, and website. Ivan Ristić, the author of Hardenize, gave a demo of his app at our Cloudflare London HQ.
Do you know how secure your site is? View a Hardenize report on your website by clicking this button:
Interested in sharing a demo of your app at a meetup? We can help coordinate. Drop a line to [email protected].
Show 353: The Business Impact Of Network Automation
Today on Packet Pushers we discuss how the operational change of network automation can affect your organization. Our guest is Alejandro Salinas, Senior Manager of Global Network Operations at GroupOn. The post Show 353: The Business Impact Of Network Automation appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed
As opposed to the public telephone network, the internet has a Packet Switched design. But just how big can these packets be?
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This is an old question and the IPv4 RFCs answer it pretty clearly. The idea was to split the problem into two separate concerns:
What is the maximum packet size that can be handled by operating systems on both ends?
What is the maximum permitted datagram size that can be safely pushed through the physical connections between the hosts?
When a packet is too big for a physical link, an intermediate router might chop it into multiple smaller datagrams in order to make it fit. This process is called "forward" IP fragmentation and the smaller datagrams are called IP fragments1.
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The IPv4 specification defines the minimal requirements. From the RFC791:
Every internet destination must be able to receive a datagram
of 576 octets either in one piece or in fragments to
be reassembled. [...]
Every internet module must be able to forward a datagram of 68
octets without further fragmentation. [...]
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Can CNCF Avoid Pitfalls That Have Hampered OpenStack?
Unique governance model allows projects to set their own course.
Windstream Provides Wholesale SD-WAN to BCN Telecom
Windstream has been offering BCN services via wholesale for over a decade.
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — August 18, 2017
MongoDB reportedly files for an IPO; ADVA completes acquisition of MRV Communications; Mirantis launches Kubernetes and Docker Bootcamp.
NetApp CEO to Nutanix, VMware: Our HCI Is Better Than Yours
NetApp and Microsoft will reveal more details about their partnership later this year.
Got my number!
After a week of waiting (why this is taking so long? this wasn’t a particularly pleasant week), I finally got my number.
Brand new JNCIE-DC #31 !!!
The main note about the lab – time management is the most important thing on the exam. Don’t rush to the keyboard, read and understand all the tasks and it’s interdependencies. Have a plan regarding order of tasks – not all tasks can be completed in order in which they written. Don’t be affraid to skip some tasks if it takes a long time.
I am quite pleased with the level of my preparation for the lab – there were no unexpected or incomprehensible tasks. General feeling about JNCIE-DC lab – this is interesting, pretty complex but fair exam. Lot of tasks on various themes, I think all themes from blueprint are covered in the lab in some ways.
As the proctor told me, the main difficulty of this exam is that it’s something new, and people are afraid of a new and unexpected. I want to tell you – don’t be afraid! If you’re interested in learning a Juniper way of building Data Center networks, and also want to earn one more pretty Continue reading
Worth Reading: Supporting new DNS RR types
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Announcing our updated Privacy Policy
Today we published a new Privacy Policy covering usage of our web sites as well as our collecting and maintaining Personal Data of our members, attendees to our events and subscribers of our various communications.
Todd M. Tolbert
Automating Documentation
Tedium is the enemy of productivity. The fastest way for a task to not be done is to make it long, boring, and somewhat complicated. People who feel that something is tedious or repetitive are the ones more likely to marginalize a task. And I think I speak for the entire industry when I say that there is no task more tedious and boring than documentation. So how can we fix it?
Tell Me What You Did
I’m not a huge fan of documentation. When I decide on a plan of action, I rarely write it down step-by-step unless I’m trying to train someone. Even then, it looks more like notes with keywords instead of a narrative to follow. It’s a habit that has been borne out of years of firefighting in networks and calls to “do it faster”. The essential items of a task are refined and reduced until all that remains is the work and none of the ancillary items, like documentation.
Based on my previous life as a network engineer, I can honestly say that I’m not alone in this either. My old company made lots of money doing network discovery engagements. Sometimes these came because the Continue reading