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Last month (on 18th April 2026), I saw an alert for a strange route announcement:

117.120.58.0/23 262427 262761 263444 6453 3257 55836 9498 134863 134863
Background

While this specific alert triggered because it had three large Indian backbones - Tata Comm (AS6453), Jio (AS55836) and Airtel (AS9498) and normally this would appear just as a leak by J...


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For the last few weeks, I have been running a NetFlow collector for the home router. This is something I wanted to do for a long time, but I was missing the time to invest. There are a few open source options, and I guess many commercial solutions offering NetFlow, often bundled with other products.

My personal monitoring is 100% open source and presently running Prome...


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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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