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The development of my as dn42

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Nicolas Lorin
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Nicolas Lorin
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My very first node was an OVH cloud server (the cheapest in the range) hosted in Strasbourg.

In order to test the internal routing, I looked for ways to have several additional nodes. I’m sharing below the plans I was able to find:

  • Google Cloud: it’s possible to get a small instance for free in certain geographical areas, you just have to pay for the network traffic;
  • Oracle Cloud: it’s possible to have two instances totally free of charge in certain geographical zones (both instances in the same zone);
  • EUserv: offers one LXC instance free of charge.

Finally, I bought a Raspberry pi 4 that I host at home behind my Freebox.

After the OVH fire, I decided to recreate my main node at Virtua Cloud (affiliate link, but you’ll help me host this blog). Why I chose them:

  • Datacenter in the Paris region;
  • Possibility of setting up a BGP session free of charge (more on this in a future article);
  • Possibility of benefiting from a /64 ipv6 ;
  • Possibility of setting the reverse of the ipv4 address and the first ipv6 address;
  • Attractive rates.

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My arrival on dn42

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Since the first confinement, I’ve been spending part of my free time developing my dn42 AS. dn42 (decentralized network 42) could be defined as a smaller-scale reproduction of a network similar to the Internet. The main difference is that it is mainly built on VPN tunnels rather than physical links (cables or fibers between different locations/operators).

Random pictures

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Some random pictures I’ve taken on my trip (Aix-en-Provence, Chamonix, etc…).

LAMF's blacklist

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Update (12/04/2020): Following a modification to the AMF website, my scraping script no longer works. The lists will therefore not be updated for the time being. The files have been archived and the links updated.