2010-06-24
Netnod / Autonomica responds to NTIA's intent to proceed with DNSSEC in the root.

Netnod / Autonomica has submitted a response to NTIA's Public Notice: "Intent to Proceed with the Final Stages of Domain Name System Security Extensions Implementation in the Authoritative Root Zone", expressing our support to proceed with the full deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone.

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Dear Ms. Alexander

Autonomica AB operates one of Internet's 13 public root name servers for the DNS. As such we have wholeheartedly participated in the deployment and testing of DNSSEC in the root zone, orchestrated by ICANN and Verisign. We have read the "Final Report on DNSSEC Deployment Testing and Evaluation in the Root Zone" jointly published by ICANN and Verisign, and in all parts where we have first hand knowledge, we find it to be a fair and accurate description of the situation. We have no reason to believe that the parts where we do not have first hand knowledge are less fair or less accurate.

We concur with the notion that no harmful effects have been observed, and we share ICANN's and Verisign's view that none of the minor details in the testing plan that failed to meet with full success pose concern for further deployment.

Our counclusions are fully in line with those of the NTIA, and we warmly support its decision to proceed with full deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone.

Finally we would like to commend the DoC, and especially the NTIA, in its outstanding efforts to make this happen. We also acknowledge the equally outstanding efforts by ICANN and Verisign, and many other involved parties, and we believe the Internet community as a whole will benefit greatly from this.

Best regards,
Autonomica AB

Kurt Erik Lindqvist, CEO

2010-06-17
Netnod will upgrade the GE-A IXP in Stockholm

Netnod will upgrade the GE-A IXP in Stockholm with new hardware. Brocade RX-16 platform are being replaced by Brocade MLX-32 platform.

Start time: 2010-06-22 0000 CET
End time : 2010-06-22 0600 CET

Please note that services provided by Netnod/ Autonomica from _OTHER_ cities/sites are _NOT_ affected.

2010-06-10
Netnod will upgrade the GE-B IXP in Stockholm

Netnod will upgrade the GE-B IXP in Stockholm with new hardware. Brocade RX-16 platform are being replaced by Brocade MLX-32 platform.

Start time: 2010-06-15 0000 CET
End time : 2010-06-15 0600 CET

Please note that services provided by Netnod/ Autonomica from _OTHER_ cities/sites are _NOT_ affected.

2010-05-05
ZA Domain Name Authority and Netnod Signs Agreement on Anycast DNS Services for .ZA

Stockholm and Johannesburg 2010-05-01.

Netnod AB and .ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) have signed an agreement for anycast DNS services for the .ZA DNS top-level domain (TLD).

"By using anycast technology from Netnod, we will have better resiliency and redundancy for the .ZA domain name service, as well as better performance for end-users." says Vika Mpisane, GM of ZADNA. "The current agreement with Autonomica follows up on a similar agreement that Autonomica already has for co.za, which accounts for around 95% of .ZA domain names. This is good news for the stability of the .ZA namespace", adds Mpisane.

"With anycast service for .ZA, ZADNA joins the growing number of TLDs that use our DNSNODE anycast platform to gain better resilience and lower latency for their end-users" says Kurt Erik Lindqvist, CEO of Netnod.

With the agreement the .ZA TLD will be serviced from Netnod's almost 40 DNSNODE locations world wide.

Netnod and its subsidiary Autonomica operate the Internet Exchanges in Sweden and also work on Internet operations research, provide consultancy services around critical infrastructure and operate a number of common Internet services. One such service is the i.root-servers.net service, one of the 13 DNS root nameservers on the Internet.

"By using the Netnod DNSNODE anycast platform we are delighted to contribute to the operation of critical Internet infrastructure as well as help guarantee their independence and fund future developments" said Vika Mpisane further. "We are very happy to see our first African TLD join the user base of the DNSNODE anycast platform" said Mr Lindqvist, "this is a significant step in further co-operation and support for the global Internet community".

Netnod Internet Exchange AB in Stockholm and the subsidiary Autonomica are non-for profit organizations that provides critical common services for the Internet.

Contact person: Kurt Erik Lindqvist,
kurtis@netnod.se, +46-8-562 860 00.

ZADNA is the non-profit manager and regulator of the .ZA namespace, and is responsible for licensing .ZA registries

Contact person: Vika Mpisane,
ZADNA GM (+27-11-275-0082)

2010-05-03
Red Cientifica Peruana and Netnod signs agreement on anycast services for .PE

Stockholm and Lima 2010-05-01.

Netnod AB and Red Cientifica Peruana have signed an agreement for anycasting services for the .PE DNS top-level domain (TLD).

“Anycasting is a technology that has been used for some time to provide better resiliency and redundancy for DNS, which is a critical component of the Internet. With Anycast service performance is enhanced as the service will be delivered closer to users,” says Rolando Toledo, CEO of Red Cientifica Peruana.

“Anycast is a technology that allows a TLD to serve their end-users with less latency and higher resiliency, which is why we are seeing it becoming a defacto standard for operating TLDs today” says Kurt Erik Lindqvist, CEO of Netnod.”

With the agreement the .PE TLD will be serviced from Netnod’s almost 40 locations worldwide.

Netnod and the subsidiary company Autonomica operates the Internet Exchanges in Sweden as well as works on research on Internet operations, provides consultancy services around critical infrastructure and also operates a number of common Internet services. One of these is the i.root-servers.net, one of the thirteen root-servers on the Internet.

“The root-servers are critical infrastructure and their independence are very important. With this agreement we can help Netnod to fund further development and operations of the i.root-servers.net. We are pleased to be able to contribute in this way and at the same time gain the increased service for our TLD,” said Mr. Toledo.

“We are very happy to see support for our work from all around the world and further strengthening our co-operation with organizations in South America” said Mr. Lindqvist.

Netnod Internet Exchange AB in Stockholm and the subsidiary Autonomica are non-for profit organizations that provides critical common services for the Internet.

Red Cientifica Peruana -a non-profit organization- is the sponsoring organization for the .PE TLD. “Our TLD has been one of the fastest growing in the last 2 years, and with this agreement we hope to provide a better service to our more than 40,000 users under a scheme of high availability", said Mr. Toledo

Contact person: Kurt Erik Lindqvist, kurtis@netnod.se, +46-8-562 860 00.

2010-03-31
Statement regarding the i.root-servers.net incident, March 24

As operators of i.root-servers.net, one of Internet's 13 DNS root server systems, we would like to make the following statement regarding the incident on March 24, where queries to the i.root-servers.net instance in Beijing regarding certain domain names, in some cases ostensibly produced incorrect responses.

*) Netnod/Autonomica is 100% committed to serving the root zone DNS data as published by the IANA. We have made a clear and public declaration of this, and we guarantee that the responses sent out by any i.root-servers.net instance consist of the appropriate data in the IANA root zone.

Furthermore, the identity of the source of the query does not in any way affect the way a certain query is treated by i.root-servers.net.

http://www.netnod.se/pdf_files/autonomica-signed-mri.pdf

http://www.icann.com/correspondence/lindqvist-to-twomey-08may09-en.pdf

There was no deviation on our part from this principle on March 24.

*) Once we had determined that the incorrect replies were associated with queries sent to our anycast node in Beijing, and we had performed some testing, we withdrew the announcements of the i.root-servers.net service from that location. That withdrawal remains in effect.

*) Our root server instance in Beijing, China, has *NO* special properties that makes it different from any other instance of i.root-servers.net. For every query it receives, a response is sent out - a response that contains exactly the same data that any other instance of i.root-servers.net would send out in response to the same question.

*) We see no traces what so ever of non-Netnod/Autonomica activities on our machines in Beijing, nor do we see any traces of malfunctioning hardware or software on said machines.

*) As packets traverse the Internet they cross multiple service providers, that all have access to the packets. It's impossible for a sender to guarantee that a packet arrives as sent unless some sort of packet content integrity mechanism is applied. In the case of DNS, this is called DNSSEC. Had the responses to the queries been signed with DNSSEC, and had the DNSSEC protocol been observed in the recipient end, it would have been obvious to the recipient that the data received was not the data published by the zone maintainers.

We also note that the use of authenticated network resource public key infrastructure systems (RPKI) would not have helped in this situation, as we have no reason to believe that any ISP has sent incorrect routing information to any other ISP in this case.

We would also like to stress that the incorrect responses were ONLY seen in response to some (but not all) queries sent towards the i.root-servers.net instance in Beijing. We have no reports that indicate problems with any other i.root-servers.net instance than Beijing.

*) We are working with CNNIC, who host our installation in Beijing, to find an explanation for the observed behaviour, and we maintain full confidence in our host's good intentions in providing the best of service to us and to the Internet in general.

*) We will work with CNNIC on a way to re-establish service from Beijing in a stable and secure manner, once we know more about the cause of the problems seen, and feel comfortable that the situation has been rectified.

We will produce further statements as we believe we have authoritative information

2010-02-20
Presentations from Netnod customer event

You can now find the presentations from the Netnod customer event in February here

2010-02-03
New Netnod logo online!

You might be one of them who already have run into the new Netnod logo? It was launched it in September 2009 and it has been seen on a few conferences since then.

We have now made some changes in the colour scheme on our website to match the new Netnod logo. The reason why we decided to change the logo is because of a recent name change. We have gone from using two different names; Netnod and Autonomica to now only use Netnod.

Before Netnod was mostly used for our exchange point services and Autonomica was associated with i.root-servers.net and DNSNODE anycast services. But since we're really only one organisation, we decided that using these two separate names was simply too confusing. Some people knew us as Netnod and others as Autonomica, without realising it was the same people behind it all. We haven't changed anything structurally; we are still the same people, still doing the same thing. We just want it to be a little bit clearer who we actually are.

The Netnod team

2010-01-12
Netnod meeting in Stockholm February 2010

Netnod will be holding a customer event in Stockholm
17-18 of February 2010.

More information can be found here.

2009-11-12
Information about the problems on november the 4th

On november the 4th, Netnod experienced heavy packetloss from around 8.30 CET, lasting until approximately 19.30 CET. The causes of the issues seems to have been multiple but mostly related to ethernet frames being looped back to the switches, that caused the software on the switch to run the line cards at 100% cpu load. That in turn lead to the packet loss that was being seen. The problem was investigated together with our switch vendor.

2009-11-05
All operations are fully restored in Stockholm A

The problems reported during the day in Stockholm A now appear to be resolved. We kindly ask all members to enable their ports and/or BGP sessions on the switch if they haven't already done so. We will post more information about the cause of the problems shortly.

2009-11-04
Errors reported on connections to Stockholm A

We are currently seeing errors reported on connections to the Stockholm-A site. Customers connected to Stockholm-A might experience problems. We are currently investigating the problem and will post more information during the day.

2009-10-22
Netnod/Autonomica signs MoU with AfriNIC

Netnod/Autonomica and AfriNIC has signed an joint MoU, agreeing to cooperate on the installation of I-rootservers in Africa. This MoU is one in a series of steps taken by Netnod/Autonomica to expand its rootserver footprint in an effort to further serve the Internet community at large. Netnod/Autonomica is excited to strengthen its ties with AfriNIC and is committed to pursue the installation of rootserver instances in the African region.

The MoU can be found here.

2009-10-13
Netnod installs WDM system at Telecity

At the moment Netnod is in the process of installing a WDM system at one of the Carrier neutral co-location centres in Stockholm: The Telecity data centre in Bromma. Since the fibre-part of the cost will decrease, we will be able to reclassify the co-location centre from outer city pricing to inner city pricing, which means we will lower the prices significally for the members located at Telecity.

This change will be carried out in the next few weeks. A channel in Netnod’s DWDM system will replace the affected members’ fibre connections; from Telecity data centre to Netnod Internet Exchange.

Since the member owns the internal patching at Telecity, all members will need to order patching to the DWDM system them selves. Members affected will receive an e-mail with instructions on how and when to order new patching with Telecity closer to the date of the migration.

More information to affected members will follow soon through e-mail.

The Netnod IX-Team

2009-10-12
Netnod is moving offices!

The 14th of October 2009, we will be moving to a new address. Please note that you now will be able to reach us at the following address:

Netnod
Franzéngatan 5
SE-112 51 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 562 860 00


2009-10-12
EPF4 in Copenhagen 14th -15th of September

For the forth year in a row the European Peering Forum was held. This time in Copenhagen and with Netnod as a main host. The event brought together over 200 members from the host IXP:s AMS-IX, DE-IX, LINX and NETNOD. The agenda was full of presentations, interactive sessions and discussions. The content included presentations on the Scandinavian peering landscape, QoS in IP interconnection and a discussion on the impact of privacy legislation and data retention. There was also a debate on Peering vs. Transit in Europe, DDoS mitigation and an IPv6 peering panel. During the coffebreaks and socials the attendees met with present peers and potential new contacts. People shared experiences, did business and had a really good time. The event was a success and the plans for next years EPF has already started. The purpose with the annual meeting is to allow delegates to establish and extend peering relationships as well as share information beneficial to the whole peering community.

Article published on the event can be found here.

2009-08-29
Netnod meeting 17-18 September 2009

Netnod will be holding a Netnod event in Stockholm
17-18 of September 2009. The meeting will be held
at the World Trade Center Stockholm.

More information and the agenda can be found here.

2009-05-09
Netnod/Autonomica Joins Other Root Server Operators in Statement to ICANN

Netnod/Autonomica which operates i.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root name servers deployed globally to manage traffic between computers connected to the Internet, has joined the RIPE NCC, operator of K-root, and WIDE Project, operator of M-root, in issuing a joint statement to ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

The purpose of this statement, made in letters sent by each of the three organisations to Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN, is to publicly document the continued commitment of the Autonomica, RIPE NCC and WIDE Project to coordinate their respective DNS root name service operations.

The statement can be found here

2009-05-05
National Exercise on Telecommunication Infrastructure Crisis

During May 6-7, 2009, the staff at Netnod/Autonomica participates in a National Swedish Exercise on Telecommunication Infrastructure Crisis (Telö 09), arranged by The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS), where a theoretical crisis scenario based on terrorism is played out to a group of participating Internet service providers, Telephony operators, electrical power companies and other infrastructure related organizations. The staff at Netnod/Autonomica and the other participating organizations will face a number of invented problems, and are expected to train their abilities to solve problems, prioritize, and cooperate with business peers.

The exercise is almost purely theoretical, and no impact is expected on any real services provided by Netnod/Autonomica. Any problems in the real world or service requests from actual customers will have immediate and absolute priority over the exercise.

2009-04-28
4th European Peering Forum (EPF)

Netnod is proud to host the upcoming 4th European Peering Forum (EPF) on 14 and 15th September in Copenhagen, Denmark.



This unique event brings together over 200 people from peering networks across Europe and beyond. The EPF is a great opportunity to network and it covers topics such as peering negotiation and strategy, as well as operational aspects of peering.

For more information, please see the EPF website

2009-02-09
Netnod meeting 16-17 February 2009

Netnod will be holding a Netnod event in Stockholm 16-17 February 2009 at the SAS Radisson Royal Viking hotel.

More information can be found here

2008-12-17
The Netnod Exchange is fully IPv6 enabled

Netnod IX enabled native IPv6 at the Stockholm Internet Exchange point Service peerings on 18 March 2008.
This was one more step to a fully IPv6 enabled network company, as Netnod, an IPv6 pioneer in Sweden has been offering IPv6 peering since 2003 at the Internet Exchange Fabrics.

CEO of Netnod, Kurtis Lindqvist gave a presentation about the Netnod IPv6 deployment experience at the RIPE 56 meeting in Berlin, May 2008. This presentation can be viewed at the RIPE 56 website.

2008-04-23
IPv6 Workshop

Netnod organised an IPv6 workshop at the Clarion Hotel in Stockholm. The presentations can be found here

2008-04-21
12th Euro-IX

Netnod was proud to host the 12th Euro-IX meeting in Stockholm, 21-22 April 2008.



2007-12-17
Netnod reduces its fees

Netnod IX is pleased to announce that it will further reduce its member fees for 2008. In a continued effort to meet the needs of its members, Netnod is reducing all fees with approximately 20%, effective 1 January 2008.

The new price list can be found here.

As all Netnod members are billed quarterly, all members will be able to benefit from the fee reduction immediately in the first billing period after 1 January 2008.

If you have any questions regarding the new fee schedule, please contact us at:

2007-06-26
Router upgrade,

On Thursday June 28, 2007, starting at 1400 CET, Netnod Internet Exchange will begin replaceing our peering routers in Gothenburg, Malmo and Sundsvall.

The replacement takes place between these hours:

Gothenburg
Start time: 2007-06-28 1400 CET
End time : 2007-06-28 1500 CET

Malmo
Start time: 2007-06-29 1000 CET
End time : 2007-06-29 1100 CET

Sundsvall
Start time: 2007-07-02 1400 CET
End time : 2007-07-02 1500 CET

_ALL_ functions and hardware installed on site _EXCEPT_ the exchangepoint switch will be affected when replacing routers. Please note that services provided by Netnod/Autonomica from _OTHER_ cities are _NOT_ affected.

We apologize for all inconvenience this may cause.

2006-12-18
Customers,

Jan 1st 2007 Netnod will change it's charging model as well as lower the prices.

The annual fee will be charged per quarter in advance instead of per year in advance as it has been previously.

In connection with this change we will also have to make
some changes to the "General terms and Conditions for Operators".

You can find all the changes here.

2006-12-05
All,
Netnod are forced to perform a software upgrade on our switches in STOCKHOLM. This due to a bug in present software, forcing 10GE linecard to lock up.

Software upgrade will take place at the following date and time:

STOCKHOLM GE-B
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Start time: 2006-12-14 0600 CET
End time: 2006-12-14 0630 CET
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STOCKHOLM GE-A
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Start time: 2006-12-14 0630 CET
End time: 2006-12-14 0700 CET
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All customers connected to STOCKHOLM switches are affected. Please note that services provided by Netnod/Autonomica from _OTHER_ cities/ sites are _NOT_ affected.

Your connection towards the switch will go down/up one time within the scheduled maintenance window.

We apologize for all inconvenience this may cause.

/Netnod-IX Team

2006-11-16
All,
Netnod are forced to perform a software upgrade on our switches in GOTHENBURG and MALMOE. This due to a bug in present software, forcing 10GE linecard to lock up.

Software upgrade will take place at the following date and time:


GOTHENBURG GE-B
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Start time: 2006-11-16 0630 CET
End time: 2006-11-16 0645 CET
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MALMOE GE-B
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Start time: 2006-11-16 0645 CET
End time: 2006-11-16 0700 CET
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All customers connected to GOTHENBURG and MALMOE switches are affected.Please note that services provided by Netnod/Autonomica from _OTHER_ cities/sites are _NOT_ affected.

Your connection towards the switch will go up/down one time within the scheduled maintenance window.

We apologize for all inconvenience this may cause.

Regards,
Netnod Internet Exchange

2006-10-05
Customers,
Netnod will upgrade GE-IX in Stockholm with new hardware. Foundry MG8 platforms will be replaced by Foundry RX-16 platforms.

Netnod has decided to do this upgrade in two steps at the following dates and times:

GE-B
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Start time: 2006-10-18 0200 CET
End time: 2006-10-18 0600 CET

GE-A
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Start time: 2006-11-01 0200 CET
End time: 2006-11-01 0600 CET

Your connections will be down from 02:00 until we have repatched your fiber to the new hardware.

During the scheduled maintenance window you may experience disturbance of periodic nature. Please note that services provided by Netnod/Autonomica from _OTHER_ cities/sites are _NOT_ affected.

We apologize for all inconvenience this may cause.

/Netnod-IX Team

2006-01-17
Software upgrade
Netnod will be performing software upgrades on GE-IX Stockholm switches. The following scheduled maintenance windows have been allocated:

GE-C (Stockholm): Wednesday 18:th of January
23:00 - 02:00 CET.

GE-B (Stockholm): Wednesday 25:th of January
23:00 - 02:00 CET.

During the scheduled maintenance windows you may experience disturbance of periodic nature. The actual upgrade will be between 00:30-01:30 and under that period the switch will be rebooted a number of times.

The scheduled maintenance windows are a bit bigger so we can deal with unforeseen troubles if they arise.

/Netnod IX-Team

2006-01-17
New contract
Netnod's daughter company Autonomica, have been awarded the contract for operating one of FICORA's .FI DNS slave servers as an anycast instance. Please see the press-release for more details.

2005-03-10
Polarix
In 1996 SUNET, the Swedish University Network, together with Swedish Internet Service Providers as represented in the Swedish Internetoperators Forum (SOF) planned for the establishment of one or more national nodes for exchange of Internet traffic. Netnod was consequently founded with support from The Foundation for Knowledge and Competence Development (KK Foundation) supported the establishment of the national exchange point in Stockholm. In 2000 Netnod created a fully owned subsidiary called Autonomica that runs the operations of Netnod, as well as operates and develops common Internet services, and provides research on Internet technologies.

2004-12-22
Customers,
Netnod will upgrade GE-IX in Stockholm with new hardware. Extreme platforms will be replaced by Foundry platforms and at the same time, 10GE ports will be made available.

Netnod has decided to do this upgrade in two steps at the following dates and times:
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GE-A switch
26 January 2005 between 02:00-06:00

GE-B switch
9 February 2005 between 02:00-06:00
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On the day of the upgrade your connection will be down from 02:00 until we have repatched your fiber to the new hardware.

Netnod would like you to report the name and contact information to at least one person or noc that we can contact during the night, in case if we encounter any problems with your connection.

Our contact information during the upgrades:
phone +46 8 615 85 75
mail noc@netnod.se

If there are any additional questions or if you are ready to report your contact information, please mail noc@netnod.se