Episode 6
Kenneth Finnegan
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Kenneth Finnegan, internet exchange homebrewer. Join us as we delight in the underbelly of the internet, learn about OG ASNs, run upon illegal cabling -- and thrill in the discovery of a root DNS server thirty
January 6, 20201h 5m
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Show Notes
You can find Kenneth on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KWF and read his blog at https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/. You can follow the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange at https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- Gallium arsenide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide
- Lam Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research
- Applied Materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Materials
- Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Electron
- Tier 2 network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_2_network
- Hurricane Electric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Electric
- Autonomous system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)
- Border Gateway Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
- ASN 7034: https://peeringdb.com/asn/7034
- "Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit": https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html
- Internet exchange point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point
- Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange: https://fcix.net/ https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX
- Small form-factor pluggable transceiver (SFP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver
- Content delivery network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
- Google Global Cache: https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en
- Google Global Cache node install guide: https://www.gstatic.com/isp/docs/ggc-installation.pdf
- Comcast/Netflix dispute: https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-to-pay-comcast-for-internet-traffic/
- Internet outage involving Allegheny Technologies: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/
- DNS root servers: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers
- M-ROOT DNS server: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/825
- BGP Design and Implementation: https://amzn.to/2NE3SXl
- Norton Internet Peering Playbook: https://amzn.to/2QRkHA0
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