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eldomador.bsky.social
Internet Analysis (BGP/NetFlow) at @kentik.bsky.social (formerly of Dyn Research and Renesys). https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougmadory/
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Widespread power outage in Chile caused a significant disruption in Internet connectivity visible in IODA's Active Probing and Telescope signals. Regional signals show the widespread impact. Follow connectivity in Chile in near realtime: ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/CL?f...

IODA team member, Dr. Amanda Meng will co-facilitate an in-person session with partners at @accessnow.social and @ooni on "Documenting internet shutdowns around the world: challenges, opportunities, and solidarity" Join us! #RightsCon2025 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

How timely! I'll be presenting on the Internet's ultimate reliance on electricity (and the competing factors that we need to be thinking of) today at #apricot2025 You can tune in here 2025.apricot.net/programme/pr...

Massive power outage in Chile knocks out nearly all Internet service for the country beginning at 18:16 UTC (3:16pm local). #apagon

Check out this podcast from APNIC! @jobsnijders.bsky.social’s #RPKIviews project is essential for any longitudinal RPKI analysis. There really is no alternative. blog.apnic.net/2025/02/20/p... I used it for this analysis:

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🌍 New series: CLM Chowder! 🍲 @eldomador.bsky.social's new blog series analyzes notable cloud connectivity trends using Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map (CLM). kentik.com/blog/clm-cho... #CloudLatency #Kentik

🚨 New BGP leak analysis from @eldomador.bsky.social! A recent BGP path leak from Brazil briefly disrupted networks worldwide—slipping past RPKI ROV. This is exactly why we need ASPA… ASAP. www.kentik.com/blog/beyond-... #BGP #RoutingSecurity #RPKI

NYT's The Morning newsletter with the clearest explanation of the crisis we now face - expert ratings of US democracy in our Bright Line Watch survey have already plummeted to levels not seen during Trump's first term www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

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My brain gets Kendrick and Kentik mixed up often and I occasionally think Drake is being absolutely destroyed by real time BGP observability.

Sweden says Latvian undersea cable damage was not sabotage eng.lsm.lv/article/soci...

So, the USAID website is down, but not dead.. the CNAME DNS record connecting it to Akamai's www.usaid.gov.edgekey.net was deleted yesterday, making the site effectively invisible. But you can still view it, and archive its content, by modifying your local DNS. hachyderm.io/@meileaben/1...

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Not "legal niceties." What they are doing is illegal! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

Read IODA's latest post on how Russia's recent attacks on Ukraine's energy grid impacted its Internet connectivity: ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/reports/how-...

UPDATE: #TikTok's CDN mix has quietly returned to its pre-shutdown configuration.

[NEW BLOG POST] Using an LLM to Query Structured Network Telemetry In this post I look at querying structured network data like flow records using Ollama & Llama in a couple different ways If you're interested in learning about LLMs and AI in NetOps, check it out! networkphil.com/2025/01/28/u...

UPDATE: #TikTok's CDN mix has quietly returned to its pre-shutdown configuration.

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Investigating the latest subsea cable cut in the Baltic (h/t @auonsson.bsky.social) Based on BGP, appears that Latvian State Radio and Television Centre's cable (AS8194) cable was cut at 00:45 UTC (2:45am local) on Sunday morning when it lost transit from Arelion. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

visual analysis of the #cablebreak between Sweden and Latvia today…

"Based on current findings, it is presumed that the cable is significantly damaged due to external factors." - statement from LVRTC www.lvrtc.lv/en/news/jaun...

"Baltic undersea cable likely damaged by external force, Latvia says" - @Reuters www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Investigating the latest subsea cable cut in the Baltic (h/t @auonsson.bsky.social) Based on BGP, appears that Latvian State Radio and Television Centre's cable (AS8194) cable was cut at 00:45 UTC (2:45am local) on Sunday morning when it lost transit from Arelion. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

This is what the Syrian outage looks like from a network standpoint, thanks to @eldomador.bsky.social and @kentik.bsky.social.

Read IODA's latest post on how Internet connectivity has been impacted in Syria since the fall of Assad. ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/reports/syri...

The HTS-led #Syria(n) government blamed "fugitive remnants of the former regime ... seeking to destabilize security" for sabotage — cutting the fiber optic cables between Damascus and Homs causing last night's multi-hour national internet outage. x.com/SanaAjel/sta...