[sdnog] using RIPE atlas to check which DNS root your resolver prefers.

[tariq198487]

Accordingly, three steps are required for Ethiopian to use our e_root:
1- Mohamed Osama ( SIXP admin)  should update his lists with ethiopian prefixes. 
2- commuinty tags should be removed from e-root prefixes. 
3- operators advertize e-root prefixes to Ethiopian. 

Thanks




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Tarig YassinHiba Eltigani <higba6 at gmail.com> wrote:Thanks for sharing. The Ethionet seems really odd but I guess since the e.root is hosted in the IXP, most probably the ISP is tagging all the routes with no-advertise community to prevent them from going to the Internet. I think it is a good practice to keep routes received from IXP inside your network but may be root servers can be the exception ;).
BR

Hiba
On Dec 27, 2014 5:57 PM, "Nishal Goburdhan" <nishal at controlfreak.co.za> wrote:
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> some of you may remember me showing some graphs from the RIPE atlas probes, showing DNS performance.  we've distributed several probes in sudan, and i thought it would be interesting for you to see what these can show you about the networks that the probes are attached to.
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> if you look at:  https://atlas.ripe.net/contrib/root_anycast.html?msm_id=1 and choose "e.root" and "IPv4", you'll see that all the results for the probes in sudan, report KRT.  that's good;  it tells us that from the different network operators that have probes installed, DNS responses to e.root goes "local" to khartoum.  this is what we want!
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> in looking at this map, i noticed some oddities;  for example, if you look at the probes in ethiopia, you'll see a response for SDB;  which is a location in cape town.  so DNS resolution for the probes in those ethiopian networks, goes all the way to cape town.  that's clearly not very optimal.
> what's likely happening, is that ethiopia telecom, buys IP transit from seacom, who also buy transit from a south african ISP, who advertises the e.root prefix to seacom.  seacom then route down to south africa to what they believe to be the closest e.root.
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> i call this odd, since, at least one sudanese operator is selling IP transit to ethio telecom, so i would expect the ethio telecom probe to also pickup the e.root from khartoum.  perhaps if the operator is here, and listening, they can look into this  ;-)
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> you can have a lot more fun (and learn a lot more about how things route across the 'net, using the RIPE atlas probes.  you'll see that there aren't a lot of probes installed in sudan;  it would be really good to get this from as many (network) locations  as possible.  so if you want to help host a probe, please ping me (or sara) off-list.
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