Hi, I'm Iljitsch van Beijnum. This page has news and announcements.
This Thursday I'll be at the NL-ix BGP security update event in Copenhagen, talking about BGP security topics, especially RPKI and BGPsec. I remember the first time I went to the IETF in 2002, where I heard about S-BGP and soBGP. And now last September that finally resulted in the publication of the BGPsec RFC (RFC 8205).
It's not too late to register, so I hope to see you there! Be sure to come say hi.
Permalink - posted 2018-04-15
When I lost my previous server, I recreated my websites from a backup on a virtual machine running on an old laptop at home. After ironing out issues with the different software versions that worked well, but obviously this is not a great solution.
So as a permanent solution, I got a virtual private server over at transip. They're cheap and highly automated, so setting up and managing virtual server is really easy. I guess the fact that everything runs of off SSDs helps a lot, because my websites have never been faster.
Permalink - posted 2017-05-07
I'm not sure when exactly it happened, but a week or two ago my server that hosts this site as well as bgpexpert.com and skatekalender.com went offline. This server has been running since 2005, so I wasn't too surprised. I assumed that either the server itself or the drive had finally given the ghost. So my plan was to collect it from the datacenter and see if could get the latest data from the drive.
Turns out, the people at Leaseweb removed and subsequently destroyed the server by accident.
So I took the long weekend to rebuild everything from backups. As is always the case, the backups turned out to be less comprehensive than expected, so I did lose some data, especially images. I'll be restoring some of those by hand, in some cases with lower resolution versions.
Everything is up and running on a temporary server now, but I want to find a good place to host a virtual server and then migrate everything there.
Permalink - posted 2017-04-17
If you tried to visit one of my websites yesterday or earlier today (5 and 6 august 2016), like muada.com, bgpexpert.com or skatekalender.com, the site didn't load. That was because my hosting company was doing maintenance so the server had to be shut down. The maintenance took a lot longer than expected, hence the significant downtime.
If you tried to send me mail on friday and you got an error, please try sending it again.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
Permalink - posted 2016-08-06
My latest Ars Technica IPv6 story is about IPv6 celebrating its 20th birthday and that it has reached 10% deployment at the end of 2015.
And the US is doing very well with almost 25% IPv6 deployment:
If you liked (or missed) last month's post where I talk about 20 years of BGP, you may be interested in this story for the RouterFreak site that covers the history of inter-domain routing all the way from the GGP protocol in the early 1980s to the present.
Permalink - posted 2015-09-24