Collaboration with IXPs

Nishal GoburdhanSnr. Project Manager -

Global Infrastructure AFRINIC TunIXP IX Workshop

April 2013

Tuesday 30 April 13

DNS  PROGRAMMES

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As  part  of  our  mission  to  support  Internet  technology  usage  and  development,    AfriNIC  operate  three  dis:nct  and  

separate  DNS  programmes.    These  are  all  for  the  benefit  of  the  Internet  community  

and  are  made  available  at  zero  cost.

Tuesday 30 April 13

DNS  PROGRAMMES

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• African  Root  Server  Copy    (AFRSCP)

• AfriNIC  supported  RFC5855  servers

• African  DNS  Support  Programme  (AFDSP)

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Root  Name  Instances  in  Africa    

I  (Netnod)

J  (VeriSign)

F  (Internet  Systems  Consor@um)

L  (ICANN)

E  (NASA  Ames  Research  Center)

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DNS  PROGRAMMES

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• African  Root  Server  Copy    (AFRSCP)

• AfriNIC  supported  RFC5855  servers

• African  DNS  Support  Programme  (AFDSP)

Tuesday 30 April 13

RFC  5855

•RFC5855  describes  stable  naming  scheme  for  the  nameservers  that  serve  the  IN-­‐ADDR.ARPA  and  IP6.ARPA  zones.

•AfriNIC  supports  the  Internet  community  by  managing  the  “c”  servers  for–Dec  1,  2010  -­‐  ip6.arpa–Feb  17,  2011  -­‐  in-­‐addr.arpa

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Tuesday 30 April 13

DNS  PROGRAMMES

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• African  Root  Server  Copy    (AFRSCP)

• AfriNIC  supported  RFC5855  servers

• African  DNS  Support  Programme  (AFDSP)

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AfDSP

•The  DNS  Support  program  is  available  to  holders  of  Cri:cal  Internet  Resources,  and  ccTLDs,  to  help  bolster  their  infrastructure.

•We  provide  free  secondary/slave  DNS  services  across  our  infrastructure  (or,  if  requested  a  subset  of  it)

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Tuesday 30 April 13

Status  in  Tunisia

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• African  Root  Server  Copy    (AFRSCP)

• AfriNIC  supported  RFC5855  servers

• African  DNS  Support  Programme  (AFDSP)

Tuesday 30 April 13

Measuring  and  monitoring

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•AfriNIC  /  ISOC    /  RIPE-­‐NCC  collabora:ve  effort

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The  Start  ...

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IXP

An  IXP  is  just  one  element  needed  for  the  community  building  process

Community  involvement  must  follow  !

Tuesday 30 April 13

INX  -­‐  ZA:    PEERING  UPDATE  

Tuesday 30 April 13

PEERING  IN  ZA

•Not  new  to  peering  -­‐  JINX  est.  1996

•Operated  through  bodom-­‐up,  member  derived,  consensus  driven  policies

•Excellent  track  record  -­‐  ZERO  unplanned  outages

Tuesday 30 April 13

VITAL  STATISTICS

•Largest  (L2)  IX  in  Africa

•Well  distributed  to  other  SADC  countries  through  regional  operators        

•5  DNS  Roots

•140+  TLD  instances

•1  FTE          ;-­‐)

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Public  traffic  stats  are  only  indica&ve  of  ZA  traffic  

paderns;    just  as  much  traffic  flows  through  PNIs  around  

the  IX

Tuesday 30 April 13

A  rough  es:mate  puts  the  total  wholesale  value  of  the  traffic  exchanged  through  the  public  fabric,  at  the  INXes  in  ZA  

at  $25m  p/a.

Tuesday 30 April 13

COLLABORATIVE  PROJECTS

•INXAnywhere:      bringing  remote  par:cipants  to          the  IX

•routeviews.org  collector  at  JINX

•Denial  of  Service  and  anomaly  monitoring

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hdp://ispa.org.za/inx

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