[FL-IX] FL-IX route server and portal maintenance, Fri 20 Sep 2019

Ryan Woolley rwoolley at communityix.org
Tue Oct 1 23:37:17 UTC 2019


Hello FL-IX Members,

As planned, both route servers are now dropping RPKI invalids.

No action is required on your part.

Regards,
Ryan Woolley
for the FL-IX Technical Committee

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:19 PM Ryan Woolley <rwoolley at fl-ix.net> wrote:

> Hello FL-IX Members,
>
> We have successfully completed the conversion to IXP Manager version 5 and
> the new route servers.
>
> As of now, one of two route servers is dropping RPKI invalids.  On Monday,
> 30 September 2019, we will also drop invalids on the second route server.
>
> No action is required on your part.
>
> However, if you want to see whether you are sending any routes that will
> be dropped by RPKI, you can do this by clicking on "Filtered Prefixes" in
> the portal, which is at https://my.fl-ix.net  This can help you identify
> BGP misconfigurations, and if you are announcing RPKI-signed address space,
> this can help you identify issues with the announcements (such as prefix
> length exceeding the ROA-specified max length).  If you want to learn how
> to use RPKI to protect your address space, you can read more here:
> https://www.arin.net/resources/manage/rpki/
>
> Last, if you encounter a message to the effect of "'/ixp' path not found"
> when attempting to access the portal, you can resolve this by clearing your
> browser's cache.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan Woolley
> for the FL-IX Technical Committee
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:42 PM Ryan Woolley <rwoolley at fl-ix.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello FL-IX Members,
>>
>> On Friday, 20 September 2019, between 10am and 2pm, we will change the
>> portal, at https://my.fl-ix.net , from IXP Manager v3 to v5.  We will
>> also change the two route servers to new virtual machines, fed by the new
>> IXP Manager.
>>
>> All user data and statistics have been migrated, and you can expect to
>> access the portal substantially as you do today.
>>
>> If you peer with the route servers, you should expect the sessions to
>> each to drop and recover, one a a time, during the window.
>>
>> Because each route server carriers the same routes, there will be no
>> disruption of route server functionality, and no disruption to the IX
>> fabric is expected.  We ask that you please do not disable any sessions
>> ahead of the maintenance.
>>
>> A notification will be sent when the maintenance is completed.
>>
>> If you have any questions, please contact noc at fl-ix.net
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ryan Woolley
>> for the FL-IX Technical Committee
>>
>>
>>
>>
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