This document discusses AfriNIC's DNS programs and collaboration with Internet exchange points (IXPs). It outlines three DNS programs run by AfriNIC for the benefit of the Internet community: the African Root Server Copy, AfriNIC-supported RFC5855 servers, and the African DNS Support Programme. It also discusses measuring and monitoring of DNS infrastructure, the status of IXPs in Tunisia, and examples of collaboration between AfriNIC, IXPs and other organizations on projects like monitoring and a route collector.

1. Collaboration with IXPs
Nishal Goburdhan
Snr. Project Manager -
Global Infrastructure AFRINIC
TunIXP IX Workshop
April 2013
Tuesday 30 April 13

2. DNS
PROGRAMMES
2
As
part
of
our
mission
to
support
Internet
technology
usage
and
development,
AfriNIC
operate
three
dis:nct
and
separate
DNS
programmes.
These
are
all
for
the
benefit
of
the
Internet
community
and
are
made
available
at
zero
cost.
Tuesday 30 April 13

3. DNS
PROGRAMMES
3
• African
Root
Server
Copy
(AFRSCP)
• AfriNIC
supported
RFC5855
servers
• African
DNS
Support
Programme
(AFDSP)
Text
Tuesday 30 April 13

4. Page 5
Root
Name
Instances
in
Africa
I
(Netnod)
J
(VeriSign)
F
(Internet
Systems
Consor@um)
L
(ICANN)
E
(NASA
Ames
Research
Center)
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5. DNS
PROGRAMMES
5
• African
Root
Server
Copy
(AFRSCP)
• AfriNIC
supported
RFC5855
servers
• African
DNS
Support
Programme
(AFDSP)
Tuesday 30 April 13

6. RFC
5855
•RFC5855
describes
stable
naming
scheme
for
the
nameservers
that
serve
the
IN-­‐ADDR.ARPA
and
IP6.ARPA
zones.
•AfriNIC
supports
the
Internet
community
by
managing
the
“c”
servers
for
–Dec
1,
2010
-­‐
ip6.arpa
–Feb
17,
2011
-­‐
in-­‐addr.arpa
6
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7. DNS
PROGRAMMES
7
• African
Root
Server
Copy
(AFRSCP)
• AfriNIC
supported
RFC5855
servers
• African
DNS
Support
Programme
(AFDSP)
Text
Tuesday 30 April 13

8. AfDSP
•The
DNS
Support
program
is
available
to
holders
of
Cri:cal
Internet
Resources,
and
ccTLDs,
to
help
bolster
their
infrastructure.
•We
provide
free
secondary/slave
DNS
services
across
our
infrastructure
(or,
if
requested
a
subset
of
it)
8
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9. Status
in
Tunisia
9
• African
Root
Server
Copy
(AFRSCP)
• AfriNIC
supported
RFC5855
servers
• African
DNS
Support
Programme
(AFDSP)
Tuesday 30 April 13

10. Measuring
and
monitoring
10
•AfriNIC
/
ISOC
/
RIPE-­‐NCC
collabora:ve
effort
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11. The
Start
...
11
IXP
An
IXP
is
just
one
element
needed
for
the
community
building
process
Community
involvement
must
follow
!
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12. INX
-­‐
ZA:
PEERING
UPDATE
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13. PEERING
IN
ZA
•Not
new
to
peering
-­‐
JINX
est.
1996
•Operated
through
bodom-­‐up,
member
derived,
consensus
driven
policies
•Excellent
track
record
-­‐
ZERO
unplanned
outages
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14. VITAL
STATISTICS
•Largest
(L2)
IX
in
Africa
•Well
distributed
to
other
SADC
countries
through
regional
operators
•5
DNS
Roots
•140+
TLD
instances
•1
FTE
;-­‐)
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15. PORT
SPREAD
0
4
8
12
16
20
24
28
32
36
40
10
4
22
14
2
36
12
5
JINX
CINX
DINX
10Gb
1Gb
100bT
10bT
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16. Public
traffic
stats
are
only
indica&ve
of
ZA
traffic
paderns;
just
as
much
traffic
flows
through
PNIs
around
the
IX
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17. A
rough
es:mate
puts
the
total
wholesale
value
of
the
traffic
exchanged
through
the
public
fabric,
at
the
INXes
in
ZA
at
$25m
p/a.
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18. COLLABORATIVE
PROJECTS
•INXAnywhere:
bringing
remote
par:cipants
to
the
IX
•routeviews.org
collector
at
JINX
•Denial
of
Service
and
anomaly
monitoring
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19. hdp://ispa.org.za/inx
inx_za
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