[NLNOG] New NLNOG Looking Glass

[Teun Vink]

Hi all,

As you may have noticed, the NLNOG Looking Glass has been unavailable 
for a while. The reason for this is that we had to transfer the Looking 
Glass from a physical server hosted at XS4all to a virtual server 
provided by BIT. In the process, we had to replace the Bird looking 
glass backend with a new OpenBGPD setup. And since we were using a 
(modified) version of bird-lg as a webfrontend, we had to replace that 
as well with something that could talk to OpenBPGD. Eventually, we ended 
up writing our own LG frontend.

As of this week, the looking glass is available again at 
https://lg.ring.nlnog.net. Since we’re running a new web front end, so 
some features have changed.

And since we moved the backend to a new machine, the IP addresses 
changed as well (as Job already announced some time ago on the 
ring-users mailinglist). If you’re peering with the LG but haven’t 
done so, please change the IP addresses:

%%% ACTION REQUIRED BEGINS %%%

     Related to AS 199036 (unchanged)

     Remove OLD sessions, configure NEW sessions.

     OLD: 82.94.230.130 (please remove)
     OLD: 2001:888:2001::130 (please remove)

     NEW: 212.114.120.72 (please send all IPv4 NLRIs)
     NEW: 2001:7b8:62b:1:0:d4ff:fe72:7848 (please send all IPv6 NLRIs)

%%% ACTION REQUIRED ENDS %%%

One of the new features of the LG is that it has some knowledge about 
communities used by various ASNs. You can see this if you’re looking 
up routes and see blue coloured community labels. When hovering over 
them, you can read more about what the community is used for. For now, 
this is mostly limited to some Tier 1 networks, but we’re happy to add 
information on your network if you can provide this. You can read more 
about how to provide this at https://github.com/NLNOG/lg.ring.nlnog.net 
(by creating a pull request), but feel free to send me a list of your 
communities (off-list!) as well.

We’d like to thank XS4all for all those years of hosting the LG server 
and BIT for continuing this, and Job and the OpenBGPD developers for 
helping us build a looking glass server capable of handling the large 
amount of peers and routes we process: ~140 IPv4 and ~140 IPv6 peers, 
roughly 80M IPv4 routes and 14M IPv6 routes (and increasing)

New peers are welcome. You can setup peering and add your details at 
https://github.com/NLNOG/ring-ansible/blob/master/roles/openbgpd/vars/peers.yml 
(by creating a pull request), or contact ring-admins at nlnog.net.

Feature requests, bug reports, etc on the new web frontend are welcome 
too. Either by opening an issue at 
https://github.com/NLNOG/lg.ring.nlnog.net or by contacting the RING 
Admins at ring-admins at nlnog.net.

Thanks!
Teun