On The Metal / Kenneth Finnegan

Description

On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Kenneth Finnegan, internet exchange homebrewer. Join us as we delight in the underbelly of the internet, learn about OG ASNs, run upon illegal cabling -- and thrill in the discovery of a root DNS server thirty feet away.

Subtitle: On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Kenneth Finnegan, internet exchange homebrewer. Join us as we delight in the underbelly of the internet, learn about OG ASNs, run upon illegal cabling -- and thrill in the discovery of a root DNS server thirty
Duration: 3908
Publishing date: 2020-01-06 03:00
Link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/6ebd391b
Contributors: Oxide Computer Company; author
Enclosures: https://media.transistor.fm/9212f8ff.mp3; audio/mpeg

Shownotes

You can find Kenneth on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KWF and read his blog at https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/. You can follow the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange at https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

Gallium arsenide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide
Lam Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research
Applied Materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Materials
Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Electron
Tier 2 network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_2_network
Hurricane Electric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Electric
Autonomous system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)
Border Gateway Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
ASN 7034: https://peeringdb.com/asn/7034
"Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit": https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html
Internet exchange point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point
Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange: https://fcix.net/ https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX
Small form-factor pluggable transceiver (SFP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver
Content delivery network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
Google Global Cache: https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en
Google Global Cache node install guide: https://www.gstatic.com/isp/docs/ggc-installation.pdf
Comcast/Netflix dispute: https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-to-pay-comcast-for-internet-traffic/
Internet outage involving Allegheny Technologies: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/
DNS root servers: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers
M-ROOT DNS server: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/825
BGP Design and Implementation: https://amzn.to/2NE3SXl
Norton Internet Peering Playbook: https://amzn.to/2QRkHA0