The Week in Internet News: Facebook Blocks News from Australia
No news for you: Facebook has blocked Australians from viewing or sharing news on its site in response to a proposed law that would require social media sites and other online services to pay news publishers, the BBC reports. The “power play” may backfire, however, “given how concerned many governments have grown about the company’s unchecked influence over society, democracy and political discourse,” The Associated Press says.
SpaceX rejected: A village in France is not interested in becoming the site of a ground station for SpaceX’s satellite-based broadband service, Yahoo Finance says. Residents of Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron are concerned about the impact of the antennas on the health of residents, said Noemie Brault, deputy mayor in the village. Still, many supporters of the SpaceX Starlink project see major benefits, including expanded Internet access to low-income nations, writes Larry Press, an information systems professor at California State University. Press writes on CircleID.com that connections to India, for example, are likely to serve community organizations, clinics, schools, and businesses.
No pictures, please: Facial recognition startup Clearview AI is in trouble in Canada for collecting photos of the country’s residents without their permission, TechCrunch reports. Collecting the photos violated Canadian privacy regulations, the country’s Continue reading
MUST READ: Designing a Simple Disaster Recovery Solution
A few weeks ago Adrian Giacometti described a no-stretched-VLANs disaster recovery design he used for one of his customers.
The blog post and related LinkedIn posts generated tons of comments (and objections from the usual suspects), prompting Adrian to write a sequel describing the design requirements he was facing, tradeoffs he made, and interactions between server and networking team needed to make it happen.
Do These 5 Things Before Moving Your Business to the Cloud
When moving to cloud it’s easy to assume they’re doing things you should be doing and aren’t. With cloud, you always want to know who’s flying the plane.Tools 5. Searching for live hosts with fping. IPv4 and IPv6 version.
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Quite often, when we do the troubleshooting of our networks and systems, we want to figure out, which hosts are alive in the certain range. The quickest and the easiest way (though, not 100% accurate) is to run the ping against a specific range of IPs. There is a brilliant tool for this purpose, which is called fping.
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Can automation help to find issues in the network quickly?
All the time, when the outage is happening in the production environment, either with the network or server/application infrastructure, the race starts to restore the service as soon as possible. Automation is a key helper there.
In our trainings, the Live Network Automation Training (10 weeks) and Automation with Nornir (2 weeks), we explore a lot of real use cases, where the automation helps you to validate the state of you network and change it if necessary. You will learn the whole spectre of Continue reading
Networking and Infrastructure News Roundup: February 19 Edition
In the news this week: Partnerships to enhance SD-WAN offerings, improve attendee experience in ballparks, and modernize legacy apps by migrating to public cloud.Worth Reading: How To Put Faith in $someTechnique
The next time you’re about to whimper how you can’t do anything to get rid of stretched VLANs (or some other stupidity) because whatever, take a few minutes and read How To Put Faith in UX Design by Scott Berkun, mentally replacing UX Design with Network Design. Here’s the part I loved most:
[… ]there are only three reasonable choices:
- Move into a role where you make the important decisions.
- Become better at influencing decision makers.
- Find a place to work that has higher standards (or start your own).
Unfortunately the most common choice might be #4: complain and/or do nothing.
4 Reasons The Next CEO Of AWS Doesn’t Really Matter
Andy Jassy, the top executive at AWS, will step into the role of CEO of Amazon some time in 2021. Who will take over at AWS? It doesn’t really matter. Here’s why: 1. The operating model and corporate culture are in place Amazon spent years developing an effective way to share infrastructure within the organization. […]
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Should App Code & IaC Be In Separate Repositories? – Video
In this Day Two Cloud podcast clip, we discuss whether the code we use to manage our infrastructure and the code we use for our applications should be stored in different repositories. To hear the entire episode, go to Day Two Cloud 085: Hosting Your Infrastructure Code In The Cloud. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan […]
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2020: A Record Year for MANRS
Over the past year, COVID-19 underlined the importance of a secure and resilient Internet to ensure we stay connected online. For MANRS, this meant even more incentive to work with network operators, Internet exchange points (IXPs), and content delivery network (CDN) and cloud providers to ensure data went where it was supposed to go via secure paths.
It was, therefore, really encouraging to see a record number of participants joining MANRS last year: the number almost doubled from 317 participants at the beginning of the year to 588 participants as of 31 December 2020. MANRS participants now manage 651 autonomous systems from over 60 countries across all continents.
MANRS contributed to the decline in reported routing incidents from more than 5,000 in 2017 to below 4,000 in 2020, making the entire Internet more secure for everyone. While we cannot claim full credit, we can attribute the fewer routing incidents to the increasing number of network operators implementing best routing practices.
The year also saw us launching a new program for CDN and cloud providers in collaboration with eight founding participants: Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Azion, Cloudflare, Facebook, Google, Continue reading
Can Your Data Architecture Survive Modern Cybersecurity Threats?
Complex cloud architecture types do not need to be insecure. They just need to be built on the same level of oversight as the systems and architectures they are replacing.Minor Administrative Updates to Internet Society Privacy Policy
Today we have made some minor updates to the Privacy Policy for this site and most of our other affiliated websites. The changes from the previous privacy policy were:
- Clarified in the introduction that this privacy policy applies to sites from both the Internet Society and also the Internet Society Foundation. Previously, it said only “Internet Society”.
- References to “Chief Administrative Officer” were changed to “Legal Department”.
- The contact email address was changed from “[email protected]” to “[email protected]”.
- Under “Can I Choose not to Receive Commercial Email Communications?”, the mention of “the OTA member preference center” was removed as that functionality was merged into the Internet Society membership portal.
The previous policy from April 2018 is available for review. We are publishing this notice as part of our commitment to transparency around any updates to our privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact [email protected].
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Heavy Networking 563: Automating Documentation With Ansible, Genie, And Jinja2
On today’s Heavy Networking, we explore how to get network data you reference all the time and store it in a CSV using Ansible, the Genie parser, and Jinja2. Our guide for how to assemble these gears and get them cranking is John Capobianco, automation maven and Sr. IT Planner and Integrator for the House of Commons in the Canadian Parliament.Heavy Networking 563: Automating Documentation With Ansible, Genie, And Jinja2
On today’s Heavy Networking, we explore how to get network data you reference all the time and store it in a CSV using Ansible, the Genie parser, and Jinja2. Our guide for how to assemble these gears and get them cranking is John Capobianco, automation maven and Sr. IT Planner and Integrator for the House of Commons in the Canadian Parliament.
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