Notices by sahilister (sahil@toots.sahilister.in), page 3

Hetzner add ETA for fix of upto two weeks now https://status.hetzner.com/incident/ec8a2f28-e964-46cb-94fa-bb4629c19777

DNSSEC validation for India stands at around 64% according to https://stats.labs.apnic.net/dnssec/IN

#DNSSEC #DNS

and android.googleapis.com seems to have 15 A records and 4 AAAA records.

www.msftconnecttest.com is behind 3 levels of CNAME.

ecs.office.com is behind 4 levels of CNAME.

See `dig ecs.office.com`

```
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ecs.office.com. 176 IN CNAME ecs.office.trafficmanager.net.
ecs.office.trafficmanager.net. 58 IN CNAME s-0005-office.config.skype.com.
s-0005-office.config.skype.com. 3166 IN CNAME ecs-office.s-0005.s-msedge.net.
ecs-office.s-0005.s-msedge.net. 153 IN CNAME s-0005.s-msedge.net.
s-0005.s-msedge.net. 153 IN A 52.113.194.132

```

#dns

Funnily enough, a routine maintenance was announced on the same route for 21st of this month https://status.hetzner.com/incident/bd7a5638-5860-4bee-82a8-577bf957a859

ah! Hetzner added incident page mentioning Frankfurt - Helsinki backbone outage https://status.hetzner.com/incident/ec8a2f28-e964-46cb-94fa-bb4629c19777

#hetzner

More details about the cable at https://www.zdnet.com/article/helsinki-to-frankfurt-in-20-milliseconds-the-baltic-cable-thats-breaking-data-speed-records/

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/telecoms-cable-linking-finland-germany-likely-severed-owner-says-2024-11-18/ seems to be C-Lion1 in which Hetzner Online has stake (with 1 fiber strand at 18Tbps). Connects their DE to FI locations.

#submarinecable #hetzner #internet

@kwf Any reasons given though?

Compiled a list of know Free Software mirrors here in India - https://blog.sahilister.in/2024/10/free-software-mirrors-in-india/

#freesoftware #mirrors #India

Added links to mirrors public stats (where available) on https://blog.sahilister.in/2024/10/free-software-mirrors-in-india/ now

#freesoftware #mirrors #india

When someone try to download an Ubuntu ISO from
https://ubuntu.com/download , it redirects to local Ubuntu CD mirrors for download.

Right now, there seems to be only 1 Ubuntu CD mirror in India ie https://mirror.ubuntu.bsr.one/ (@100Mbps) which seems overloaded, leading to ISO downloads at less than 100Kbps.

#FreeSoftware #Mirror #Ubuntu

India seems to have 12 archive mirrors (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors)

Ubuntu usually is the first distribution which folks go when starting with Linux/Free Software and getting 50-100Kbps downloads for 5GB ISO is surely a bad UX.

Ubuntu CD mirrors require only 32GB storage but quite a bunch of bandwidth. See details at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors

Update Ubuntu release CD mirrors size now is 40GB (which goes up during release times).

GNOME deprecating their public mirror infra in favor of sponsored CDN https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-mirroring-system-updates/25031

#freesoftware #mirror #gnome

So RFC8482 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8482) was created to mitigate this as `any` records are rarely used for legitimate purposes.

Found from `dig any fastly.com`

#DNS #is #fun

Though `any` DNS record type has been infamous for being (ab)used for carrying out DNS amplification attacks as it generates heavy DNS payload in response. See https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-inside-a-dns-amplification-ddos-attack/ for example

#DNS