Category: Network

Post dealing with changes to how we route packets and configure our network.

PTR on our Leased /48…Kind of

Skylar.W
Posted by Skylar.W Posted on September 6, 2024
Posted in Core, Network, Operations

We poked the LIR a while back about our leased network range, 2602:f992:f3::/48, about getting the reverse DNS support added in and we were met with some technical issues the prevent them from delegating the zone to us.

Since then, our team has spent some time working on getting an understanding how to create and manage the reverse zone within our name servers. As of this evenin’, you can query our name servers directly to get the PTR record information for this zone from us. As configured, it probably is of little use to anyone, but the information is there and does resolve.

You can test this yourself by doing “nslookup -q=ptr 2602:f992:f3::1 multi.dns.marbledfennec.net” and you should get the result “1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.f.0.0.2.9.9.f.2.0.6.2.ip6.arpa name = icmp6.catos.furrix.zone.” back from our servers.

Our secondary server may return SERVFAIL for next 10-15 minutes as our zone updates need to transfer.
Our secondary server has transferred the zone in and is responding now.

Project Network Usage: 07-30 through 08-28

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Posted by Skylar.W Posted on August 28, 2024
Posted in Network, Operations

Accounting has been finished up for the month. This post will share the details of our network usage broken down by day and which part of our projects used the network. This report does not show individual member, guest or end user usages. Only combined network usages are shown here.

Physical Network Interface:
Traffic for the physical interface shows a combined view of all project traffic, including nightly backs; games; member, guest and end user traffic and internal traffic.

Hosted Services:
Traffic for hosted services includes things such as DayZ, Minecraft and FiveM.

Name Servers:
Name server traffic includes DNS traffic that is dropped at the interface and not processed.

Name Servers

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Posted by Skylar.W Posted on August 19, 2024
Posted in Issues, Network

We added stats to our website for the two name servers. You can now view incoming request, RTT and VM stats for the last 48 hours.

Also, While we have started dropping request for a handful of ‘.pirate’ and ‘.libre’ domains, as well as dropping request for ‘isc.org’, the request flood is still ongoing but has backed off to about half of the volume it was earlier this week. Two of the volunteers on our team are keeping an eye on things.