networkstring
honked 31 Oct 2025 12:52 +0000
Pulsant continued to announce my prefixes after I pulled my routers and then withdrew them within ~30 mins of asking why.
networkstring rss
Builds anti-surveillance and anti-censorship infrastructure at https://brasshorncommunications.uk and https://ablative.hosting using OpenBSD routers (AS28715, AS209220, AS215833) and servers.
GPG: 0x2AA6E6BC2184073C1779 | Signal: NAMOS.17
https://networksaremadeofstring.com
Presented at EurBSDCon, HOPE, UKNOF and others.
networkstring
honked back 29 Oct 2025 18:12 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/steverjuk/statuses/115457607244335835
@steverjuk got dual 1Gb FTTP (CityFibre/OpenReach) with BGP and plenty of rack space at the house so a bunch of stuff is temporarily here. Will be moving some misc stuff (secondary DNS, secondary MX etc etc) into Vultr once I take the time to crunch the numbers on VMs vs Bare Metal instances (annoyingly they don't support BGP full tables to Bare Metal servers but can send full tables to VMs?!?) I've got quotes from LINX for a 1/4 cab in London (with peering but no transit), RedCentric in Reading (transit, no peering) but Cogent in Amsterdam or iFog in Zurich (with peering at CHIX-CH / NLIX) feel like better options but I need to see what hell BREXIT will cause with shipping a tonne of servers over :/ Currently trialing iFOG with a virtual peering link over to their FOGIXP and will be turning up the CHIX-CH peering later this week.
networkstring
honked 29 Oct 2025 08:51 +0000
Final trip to Pulsant Reading SE-4 (as it is now known) today. Weird to think that ~15 years ago I literally helped build it. Ah well.