Chief network architect in the infrastructure division of Jisc, working on Janet, the UK's Research and Education Network.
Joined December 2009
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19 Jul 2024
As someone who did sysadmin for particle physicists in the 1990s, it was a bit of a surprise to me too.
19 Jul 2024
As a particle physicist of 1990’s vintage it’s come as a huge shock to me today that the World’s critical IT infrastructure doesn’t all run on Unix and isn’t written in Fortran 77.
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1 Dec 2023
Each year @ripencc membership vote on redistributing surplus. Due to vote of fees earlier in year, surplus expected to be small, or slight deficit this year (between EUR 7 and -7 per member). 1/
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1 Dec 2023
Board/CFO suggested membership voted "no" to redistribution and surplus or deficit went into or came out of reserves. Somehow membership still voted "yes" to mess about with small adjustments to next year's fees. 2/
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1 Dec 2023
Even after vote earlier in year not even to increase fees in line with inflation. end/
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16 Oct 2023
Thread on <mailing list> discussing the pitfalls of a weekly posting of list stats (e.g. number of messages posted by each participant) has now exceeded the number of those messages sent to the list in a year...
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3 Oct 2023
According the @ripencc alloclist, yesterday's IPv4 transfers into uk.microsoft were:
5 x /16
1 x /15
1 x /14
1 x /13
1 x /12
At a (conservative) estimate of US$45 per IP address, that's US$103M of transfers.
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13 Sep 2023
Hmm, should I pay for @TravelodgeUK hotel wifi (5Mbps down, 1Mbps up), or use tethered 5G (77Mbps down, 49Mbps up)?
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30 Aug 2023
Page hits on Juniper's website for bgp-error-tolerance over time.
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30 Aug 2023
...and @Benjojo12's write-up of discovering (and reporting, with varying degrees of frustration) the flaw. blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-…
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9 Aug 2023
OP: "Anyone having issues with NTP across AS6453?"
NANOG: "Why don't you use GPS or have your own atomic clock for your stratum 0?"
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20 Jun 2023
Why oh why do people use DD-MM-YY in filenames rather than YY-MM-DD, which can actually sort properly? (Discussions on the use of dates that have MM first are out of scope.)
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16 Jun 2023
Bring on the FTTP build, but I'd feel much more comfortable with today's presentation if Openreach vans hadn't just turned up outside to sling fibre between one telegraph pole and the pole that serves me due to blocked ducts.
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8 Jun 2023
PSA: Not all weekly meetings need to be at 14:00 on Wednesday.
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25 May 2023
Interesting stat from Geoff Huston at #RIPE86. Use of open resolvers (e.g. Google DNS, OpenDNS, Cloudflare) in EU has dropped from 30% of users in early 2022 to 10% of users now. Will people be any more likely to use DNS4EU?
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24 May 2023
I wonder if the BGP Path Selection mechanism is more widely understood among RIPE NCC members than Instant Run-Off / Single Transferrable Vote ballots…
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22 May 2023
On a call with Openreach about their optical products earlier and the front door goes. Answer it to find a few engineers from … Openreach. (They’re doing the FTTP build and all the ducts are blocked with tree roots and want to sling some fibre over the house between two poles.)
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20 May 2023
No #road2tnc for me this year, but at least I can be grateful to TNCs past whilst sitting at the garden furniture.
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17 Apr 2023
There I was, thinking everybody had the same definition of a "lame delegation" in the DNS. mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/br…
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