Job Snijders @job@bsd.network

I would love to understand what is going on inside IDNIC, The IRR (outside of the APNIC hosted endpoints) hasn't worked for nearly a entire year:

$ curl ftp://irr-mirror.idnic.net/
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0               4 Jan 30  2025 IDNIC.CURRENTSERIAL
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          757397 Jan 30  2025 idnic.db.gz

$ curl ftp://irr.idnic.net/
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0               4 Jan 30  2025 IDNIC.CURRENTSERIAL
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          757397 Jan 30  2025 idnic.db.gz

and their RPKI repo has AAAA records, but the v6 addresses don't work. this may seem harmless because things will eventually fall back to the A/IPv4 record, but that doesn't actually happen in NAT64 environments...

I tried emailing them about this and have never got a response (even trying to go via APNIC to see if they had any better contacts). For a NIC for a country with a population that is reasonably comparable to the United States this is an impressive level of abandonment to infrastructure.

UPDATE: Internet of Iran has been down for over 18 hours #IranProtests2026 #IranInternetShutdown

https://www.kentik.com/analysis/iran-goes-dark-as-government-cuts-itself-off-from-internet/

Wife: Where are all the coffee filters?

Me:

Hey, I wrote this.

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/propolice.html

#openbsd

New (very minimal) Internet-Draft submitted: ASN Prefix-based Addressing for IPv6

"This document describes a method and policy for ASN prefix-based addressing for IPv6."

If this goes anywhere I expect it will change, and grow, markedly.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kristoff-v6ops-asn-based-addressing/

#IPv6

on a zoom call Chuck Moore the author of Forth announced that Windows updates have rendered his otherwise working colorForth system inoperable and unfixable. moving to another operating system would amount to a rewrite. as a result he said it's "time to move on" from Forth.

several people on the call thanked him for changing their lives with his language, for giving them a lifetime of joyful work and a powerful simple way of thinking about computing, to which he responded "I can only hope it was worthwhile"

Friends, if you, your colleagues, or your organization has the means, especially if you've gotten some value out of rpki-client (also OpenBGPD or StayRTR), please consider donating to the non-profit Route Server Support Foundation (RSSF) to keep the software coming.

This is the important Internet infrastructure kind of stuff that is very deserving, and in need of support.

https://www.rpki-client.org/funding.html

#BGP #RPKI

If you or your colleagues have ROAs in the #AFRINIC #RPKI repository, see this email from @job

Those with a non-conformant subject name can reissue the ROA themselves, the others will need to be fixed by the registry.

https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/dbwg/2025-November/000546.html

For my company I have put together #gameoftrees and #OpenBSD support packages which cover tasks I have been doing via ad-hoc consulting gigs for years now. And I asked some freelancing friends from the OpenBSD community to share the work with me.

We support deployments of OpenBSD in server and firewall roles via yearly fixed-price contracts. All base system components can be supported.

From our existing client base we know for a fact that there are small and mid-sized businesses out there who run OpenBSD and would benefit from working with us. We want to find more of them.

https://chirpysoft.be/support.html