Currently doing some DNS testing via my ISP (Ogi) here in Wales at it seems that at the moment @aaisp has the second fastest DNS over HTTPS resolvers available!

'DNS over HTTPS | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev| Median|
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

• Average Delay | 0.012 | 0.014 | 0.015 | 0.001 | 0.013 |
• Cached Name | 0.012 | 0.012 | 0.012 | 0.000 | 0.012 |
• Uncached Name | 0.013 | 0.014 | 0.014 | 0.001 | 0.013 |
• DotCom Lookup | 0.015 | 0.015 | 0.015 | 0.000 | 0.015 |---<-------->---+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ https://dns.aa.net.uk/dns-query ANDREWS ARNOLD LTD'

Being a smidgen faster that Quad9 and NextDNS. Not too shabby! 😉🖖

#DNS #UK #DNSoverHTTPS #Internet #Performance #AAISP

New #Blog: Isolating our Guest Wireless Network in OPNSense
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/creating-isolated-ipv4-and-ipv6-networks-with-vlans-and-opnsense.html?utm_source=rss

#aaisp #networking #opnsense #vlan #wireless

anyway, i just want to say virgin media is the worst isp.

my l2tp tunnel is running through it, only because they're the fastest isp in my area.

i recently fixed an issue:

virgin seems to throttle UDP-based tunnels, especially L2TP. really awful traffic shaping.

to mitigate, i'm tunneling #aaisp l2tp service through *another* type of tunnel that vm don't throttle. it adds latency but it works.

someone said also: mangle l2tp packets on client/server, making them look like TCP to fool virgin.

Hooray, fibre finally arrives in Merstham.

Also took the opportunity to take advantage of RFC 4638 support and bump my pppoe0 MTU up by a whole 8 bytes.

Now I just need to find the time to upgrade my little EdgeRouter Lite to the latest #OpenBSD.

Thanks #aaisp for the seamless upgrade as always.

All the services I host support IPv4 and IPv6, and I thought my home network did as well. I'm with #AAISP which assigns me a lovely block after all!

Turns out, my router has a little bug where IPv6 addresses aren't assigned, even if it's enabled (which it was by default). Had to turn that off and on again and boom, IPv6 addresses assigned to all my devices properly.

If you're using a Technicolor DGA0122, make sure to check it's actually assigning v6 addresses! (https://support.aa.net.uk/DGA0122_No_IPv6)

One of the major upsides of being with #aaisp is when an engineer steals your pair you can get things fixed without waiting 10 days...