Category: Announcements

Improvements Through IX Peering

Post author By Roller Network
Post date February 3, 2015

Roller Network is one of the first participants of the Tahoe Internet Exchange, or TahoeIX. We announce our routes and our customer’s routes to the exchange, and accept all routes from the exchange. This morning TahoeIX welcomed Packet Clearing House to the peering fabric. While we’re still working turning up some direct peering sessions with PCH, their peering with the TahoeIX IPv4 route server is already up. We’ll receive routes directly and through the common route server.

Why peering? Here’s a perfect example of an improvement.

Traffic to a peered DNS root now looks like this:

$ mtr e.root-servers.net -4 -c 2 -r
HOST: whiskers                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net    0.0%     2    0.7   0.6   0.6   0.7   0.1
  2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net           0.0%     2    0.6   0.6   0.5   0.6   0.1
  3.|-- e.root-servers.net         0.0%     2    0.9   0.8   0.7   0.9   0.1

While traffic to a DNS root without peering takes the long, scenic route:

$ mtr b.root-servers.net -4 -c 2 -r
HOST: whiskers                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net    0.0%     2    0.4   0.4   0.4   0.5   0.1
  2.|-- core1-gi3-3.rollernet.net  0.0%     2    0.6   0.6   0.6   0.6   0.0
  3.|-- border0-gi0-1.rollernet.n  0.0%     2    1.2   1.2   1.2   1.2   0.0
  4.|-- 12.116.94.237              0.0%     2   15.1  31.5  15.1  47.9  23.2
  5.|-- 12.122.160.30              0.0%     2   12.4  12.2  12.0  12.4   0.3
  6.|-- cr2.sffca.ip.att.net       0.0%     2   11.7  12.6  11.7  13.4   1.1
  7.|-- 12.122.149.137             0.0%     2   13.7  13.7  13.6  13.7   0.1
  8.|-- 192.205.37.58              0.0%     2   12.0  12.1  12.0  12.3   0.3
  9.|-- ae-9.r22.snjsca04.us.bb.g  0.0%     2   12.2  11.9  11.6  12.2   0.4
 10.|-- ae-7.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.g  0.0%     2   23.2  23.4  23.2  23.6   0.3
 11.|-- ae-2.r05.lsanca03.us.bb.g  0.0%     2   24.4  23.7  23.0  24.4   1.0
 12.|-- ntt-los-nettos-usc.ln.net  0.0%     2   23.9  23.6  23.3  23.9   0.4
 13.|-- isi-vlan2009.ln.net        0.0%     2   24.0  23.9  23.8  24.0   0.1
 14.|-- b.root-servers.net         0.0%     2   24.4  25.7  24.4  27.0   1.9

The improvement should be quite obvious.

UPDATE: More prefixes from Afilias were added this morning.

$ mtr -c 1 -r b2.org.afilias-nst.org -6
HOST: whiskers                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- 2607:fe70:0:beef::1        0.0%     1    0.5   0.5   0.5   0.5   0.0
  2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net           0.0%     1    0.8   0.8   0.8   0.8   0.0
  3.|-- b2.org.afilias-nst.org     0.0%     1    0.7   0.7   0.7   0.7   0.0

$ mtr -c 1 -r b2.org.afilias-nst.org -4
HOST: whiskers                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net    0.0%     1    0.4   0.4   0.4   0.4   0.0
  2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net           0.0%     1    0.6   0.6   0.6   0.6   0.0
  3.|-- b2.org.afilias-nst.org     0.0%     1    1.0   1.0   1.0   1.0   0.0

Announcements Changes

WiMAX Broadband Discontinued

Post author By Roller Network
Post date January 20, 2015

We’re officially discontinuing WiMAX broadband services in 2015.

This does not affect any customers on standard broadband or microwave services; those on WiMAX are explicitly noted as such in the account control center and on their invoices. The WiMAX customers were always a special case for locations where we couldn’t reach with our standard service. Affected customers will be contacted directly as we work through the list to determine if they can be converted to standard service since coverage has increased since the WiMAX customers were originally installed.

Since we are completely discontinuing WiMAX services we’ve also taken steps to remove it from our website and from the internet access service level agreement. We will not be grandfathering or retaining any WiMAX-only accounts.

Announcements Fun Stuff

Akamai is Coming to Reno

Post author By Roller Network
Post date December 5, 2014

This isn’t entirely Roller Network related, but we felt compelled to mention that Akamai (AS20940) will be peering with Northern Nevada’s first (and currently only) internet exchange: TahoeIX. It’s sort of related to Rollernet since we’re also peering and offering free GigE cross connects into the TahoeIX peering fabric to all colocation customers. This is an exciting time for us here in Reno, NV.

For more on the exchange visit www.tahoeix.org

Announcements IPv6

IPv6 For Everyone

Post author By Roller Network
Post date November 26, 2014

Roller Network has long been a proponent of native IPv6 since we first deployed it on our network in 2007 following some early testing back in 2005. We also require support for native IPv6 from anyone we buy transit from now or in the future. But IPv6 provisioning on new Roller Network customer accounts has been optional on request. We’ve decided it’s time to change that.

Since last week we’ve started provisioning an IPv6 /64 subnet (with its enclosing /48 reserved) on all new accounts. Soon we’ll be going through all existing accounts and assigning an IPv6 subnet to them, too. Whether or not customers will use their IPv6 is still up to them, but we hope this will encourage some to give IPv6 another look or start learning and testing IPv6 connectivity.

Announcements Changes

Secondary DNS Updates

We’ve revamped the Secondary DNS section in the account control center and also added TSIG support for authenticating zone transfers.

According to our changelog this is the first time since 2008 that we’ve made a change to the Secondary DNS backend (how’s that for code stability), so while we’ve tested the TSIG changes to the best of our ability hopefully it doesn’t introduce some weird bug after all this time that breaks our streak.