We are happy to announce that Tachyon Dynamics is the first provider of a speed test (again), on Ookla’s www.speedtest.net, in the Southern Virginia/Tidewater area. We can offer internet speed tests of up to 100 Mbps. Happy testing! We had ISP throttling issues last year so we had to temporarily suspend the testing service. We […]
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We had a great time at the North American IPv6 Summit last week. I recommend everyone check out the virtual downloads and sessions, as there was so much great content this year. Most of this year’s excitement is how IPv6 intersects with things like Software Defined Networking (SDN), OpenStack, Whitebox networking, and Network Functions Virtualization
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We are excited to announce Tachyon Dynamics is now a Bronze Sponsor for the North American IPv6 Summit. This summit has turned out to be the largest collection of IPv6 experts, vendors and enthusiasts in North America – we would argue the world. So much great and new content will be talked about this year
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A few weeks ago, the IETF updated the newest in a long line of what I like to call “IPv6 capitulations.” Going on a rant here – the IETF fought long and hard to have a robust, secure, and interoperable protocol with IPv6. This is one of the many examples where it is being systematically
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The key to any secure network in stopping 100% of UDP-based DNS amplification DDoS attacks is simple: follow BCP38. You ask, “but it’s 2014, and BCP38 came out in 2000, why bring it up?” Well, simply not enough networks are following the Best Common Practice. Why I Bring Up BCP38 This last week saw the
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A few months back, I wrote an article called DNS for Network Engineers. Basically, it is a back-to-basics look on what each of the DNS record types were, and a few examples of what they looked like using Dig. Well, the feedback I received was a desire for more Dig. So I give you: Learning
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OSPFv3 AF Authentication is finally fixed! Unless you are a regular follower of this blog, you may not have heard that Cisco’s OSPFv3 with Address Families (AF) Authentication support was broken. By broken I mean it took down OSPFv3 adjacencies. Not good. Read here for that article. Anyway, I have been using the IOS-XE version
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Speaking with quite a few network engineers in the last few months, I was shocked by the lack of real understanding of the Domain Naming System (DNS). It shocked me because it is the singular application functionality that is entirely network-based. Meaning that DNS is the foundation of the Internet, and from their perspective, should
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Fairfax, VA — (August 16, 2012) – NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), a leader in data storage and storage provisioning enterprise and data center products achieved the Defense Department Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL) certification with the help of the Washington DC-based Information Technology firm: Tachyon Dynamics. NetApp received its certification as the first
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World IPv6 Launch, as it is being called, is this year’s Internet Society IPv6 initiative meant to provide more IPv6 content saturation on the Internet. Similar to World IPv6 Day last June, but with one very key difference: they will be IPv6-enabled permanently! That’s right, no more white lists, no more ipv6.www, v6.www, or other