A second new member in as many days!

CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, has turned up BGP at MBIX today.  Their AS55195 will be used for anycast DNS services for the .ca domain.  While this service is not in production yet, the routing is in place to any.ca-servers.ca:

jstewart@rs2:~$ sudo traceroute -I any.ca-servers.ca
traceroute to any.ca-servers.ca (199.4.144.2), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1  v10.core1.mbix.ca (198.181.199.65)  0.218 ms  0.218 ms  0.213 ms
2  AS55195-cira.mbix.ca (206.72.208.6)  0.294 ms  0.315 ms  0.317 ms
3  199.4.144.2 (199.4.144.2)  0.332 ms  0.335 ms  0.333 ms

This anycasted service, which will launch soon, will provide quicker DNS answers to members of MBIX, improving the performance of their networks.

This is another step forward for MBIX, and bringing our total peer count up to 10.

Since MBIX turned on, we have said that IPv6 was merely in testing. We are now ready to call our IPv6 services production-ready.

Primarily, that means that our two route servers are working on IPv6, and are properly configured.

They can be found at 2001:504:26::1:6395:11 and :12. We currently have BGP sessions up with HE.net, Akamai, Les.net and VOI in addition to MBIX itself.

We encourage all connected networks to run dual stack of IPv4 and IPv6. We can also help with questions about how IPv6 devices should be configured, so please be bold. The MBIX-tech mailing list might be the best place to ask.

Finally, thanks to HE.net for proving MBIX (AS16395) with free IPv6 transit, over the exchange fabric.