Category: Fun Stuff

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

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