Following my talk at NANOG 81, my post about the CDN project for APNIC's blog just went live! Building an open source anycast CDN | APNIC BlogGuest Post: A bit of free time and a desire to experiment led high school student Nate Sales to construct an open source anycast CDN.…
Update 2/15/2021: It seems that this idea of adding 50 RFC 8092 BGP communities to a route doesn't play nice with certain BGP implementations. As such, this project is no longer active. (If you're looking for my full resume, see https://natesales.net/resume.pdf) I recently started…
As I've written about previously, I'm a big fan of the BIRD routing daemon project. The idiomatic configuration syntax is a welcome change from the industry standard CLI style config, especially as someone coming from a software development background is concerned. I've written a few utilities that help with using…
The network architecture planned for the Fosshost aarch64 deployment is a little different from a conventional "cloud" virtualization system: we have very little layer 3 infrastructure. Instead, the network relies on a large layer 2 domain. Each server acts as both a hypervisor and router, and operates independently of the…
One of my projects lately has been building an anycast CDN for authoritative DNS and HTTP caching. Back in August I wrote about the first deployment of the project (https://blog.natesales.net/building-an-anycast-cdn/), but it's been a few months and I've made some big changes so I figured it's…
Ever since I started an Autonomous System on the internet a few years ago, I've dealt with the monotonous task of configuring new neighbor sessions. Don't get me wrong, peering is a great thing and I always enjoy turning up new peers - but manually writing the config each time…
A few months ago I wrote about the CDN that I've been building to learn about anycast routing (link). Almost everything about the CDN has changed as I've completely rewritten the system. One of the challenges faced by the new platform is I wanted to give HTTP a try over…
The fundamental part of BGP is it's best path selection algorithm. BGP follows a strict order of route selection. WeightLocal preferenceOriginAS path lengthOrigin codeMEDeBGP/iBGPIGP metric to BGP next hopOldest pathRouter IDNeighbor addressWeightWeight is an attribute specific to Cisco, and takes highest priority on their routers. Higher weight means higher…