A deep-dive into NLNOGs tools#

Nick Bouwhuis (NLNOG)

• Why: Free, community-maintained, vendor-neutral tooling that operator teams can adopt immediately — the highest transferability-per-effort item on the program.
• What: A tour of NLNOG's operator tools — the RING (shared shell access across member networks) and IRRexplorer (IRR/RPKI cross-checking), among others — what each is useful for, and the maintenance challenges of running community infrastructure. (from abstract only)
• How: RING members contribute a node and in return get shell-level vantage points across other member networks for debugging from outside their own AS; IRRexplorer aggregates IRR and RPKI data to check consistency of route objects and ROAs.
• Where applicable: Open to any operator willing to participate (contribute a node); no vendor dependency; broadly applicable across scales. The maintenance-challenges portion is useful for anyone considering similar shared tooling.