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Friend and his two homes…

Recently, a friend of mine mentioned his plan to procure dark fibre to connect two of his homes. His idea was straightforward - get LCO to give a dark strand between both homes and run Bidi optics over it. I ended up telling him that while his idea is technically fine, as modern optics can easily cover that sort of distance, it would be illegal as pe...


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Since 20:08 IST / 14:38 GMT on 28 Jan 2026, the latency between Airtel India and Europe has gone up along with significant packet loss.

Here’s an example of shortlist 300+ endpoints from Airtel India with European endpoints:

Traceroutes Airtel Haryana -> Contabo Europe Start: 2026-01-29T03:52:33+0530 HOST: desktop Loss% Snt Last Avg Best...

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Earlier in the day, I came across Liberty Global (AS6830) originating several Vodafone Romania (AS12302) prefixes.

Source: https://bgp.he.net/AS6830#_prefixes

This is highly unusual because AS6830 is a large transit-free network. I have seen some transit-free networks ...


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For the last few days, I have been playing with OpenTofu. For those who may not know, it’s a fork of last Terraform as Terraform’s license was changed due to IBM’s acquisition of Hashicorp and is a Cloud Native Foundation project. It can be used to quickly deploy (and remove) resources from various...


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