Bahamas: Hurricane Dorian recovery status

2019-09-10 Thread Sean Donelan



Telecommunications and mobile services have been restored in about 90% of 
the Grand Bahama island area, however network capacity is still limited.


Only about 10% of mobile and telecommunication service has been restored 
on the Abaco island. Over 60% of the housing and buildings on Abaco was 
destroyed. Four critical communications points have been established on 
Abaco for relief efforts.


BTC and Aliv, the two major mobile providers in the Bahamas, have entered 
into a free roaming agreement for the next 30 days allowing customers to 
connect to either working cell towers without roaming charges.


The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster partnered CISCO TacOps, 
Ericsson Response, NetHope, TSF and Vodafone Foundation are providing 
connectivity for humanitarian responders in four sites:
- The Marsh Harbour port and international airport (set up by Ericsson 
Response, CISCO TacOps and WFP);

- Maxwell Supermarket, used as the military EOC (set up by TSF);
- A healthcare facility (set up by Vodafone Foundation).

Equipment has been provided by the ETS partners on the ground as well 
as by Eutelsat and Hispasat ‒ and services by Inmarsat ‒ as part of the 
Crisis Connectivity Charter.


Re: Comcast route server not reflecting their reality

2019-09-10 Thread Martijn Schmidt via NANOG
Hi Will,

Unlike AS2914 which purely interconnects with AS7922, it seems that AS3356 also 
has direct interconnections to the various Comcast subsidiary networks which 
are hidden from the DFZ through no-export communities.. I figured this out due 
to a routing leak which happened a few years ago: 
https://dyn.com/blog/widespread-impact-caused-by-level-3-bgp-route-leak/

Give it a shot with the following list of communities - that should swing your 
traffic away from the AS3356 links: 65000:7922 65000:7015 65000:7016 65000:7725 
65000:13367 65000:20214 65000:22909 65000:33287 65000:33490 65000:33491 
65000:33650 65000:33651 65000:33652 65000:33657 65000:33659 65000:33660 
65000:33662 65000:33667 65000:33668

Best regards,
Martijn Schmidt

From: NANOG  on behalf of Will Orton 

Sent: 10 September 2019 01:06
To: nanog@nanog.org 
Subject: Comcast route server not reflecting their reality

I'm seeing odditiies when trying to traffic-engineering my way around an AS 
3356-to-7922 performance issue.

I buy transit from 3356 and announce my /19 to 3356. I set traffic engineering 
community 65000:7922 to supress announcement of it from 3356 to 7922.
When I do that, at route-server.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net I see the AS-path 
for my /19 change from:
3356 
to:
2914 

which makes sense as I also have transit from 2914.

So that's great, 7922 should be routing to me via 2914 or, any path not via 
3356.
But then if I go to a customer location on 7922's network, and traceroute to my 
/19, it still goes via 7922 3356  !

Is 7922's looking glass no longer reflecting actual route selection in their 
network? Does Comcast do traffic engineering that is not otherwise reflected at 
their looking glass?

If I deaggregate my /19 and announce a /24 from it to 2914, I can draw the 
inbound traffic to me away from the 7922 3356 path. Which is not a real nice 
long-term solution...

-Will



Comcast route server not reflecting their reality

2019-09-10 Thread Will Orton
I'm seeing odditiies when trying to traffic-engineering my way around an AS 
3356-to-7922 performance issue.

I buy transit from 3356 and announce my /19 to 3356. I set traffic engineering 
community 65000:7922 to supress announcement of it from 3356 to 7922.
When I do that, at route-server.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net I see the AS-path 
for my /19 change from:
3356 
to:
2914 

which makes sense as I also have transit from 2914.

So that's great, 7922 should be routing to me via 2914 or, any path not via 
3356.
But then if I go to a customer location on 7922's network, and traceroute to my 
/19, it still goes via 7922 3356  !

Is 7922's looking glass no longer reflecting actual route selection in their 
network? Does Comcast do traffic engineering that is not otherwise reflected at 
their looking glass?

If I deaggregate my /19 and announce a /24 from it to 2914, I can draw the 
inbound traffic to me away from the 7922 3356 path. Which is not a real nice 
long-term solution...

-Will