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FREE - BGP VMs - Calling all AnyCast Network Operators - Pakistan
Virtury
Member, Patron Provider
Hello LET Community,
We're on a mission to improve connectivity in Pakistan and are calling on AnyCast Network operators to establish a presence in the country. This will enhance connectivity to AnyCast networks from within Pakistan, as routing to international destinations can be suboptimal.
We're offering 10 BGP Enabled VMs in the giveaway. To qualify, you must have an ASN and a minimum of a /24 (IPv4) or /48 (IPv6) block.
VM Specifications:
25G NVMe Storage
2 vCPU Cores
4TB Bandwidth
500Mbit/s Transit
1Gbit/s Domestic (PkIX Islamabad)
Validity: 1 Year
Renewal: $4.99/mo after the first year (Discounted)
To participate, please comment/DM your intent for participation.
Entries to the giveaway shall close on 27 April 2024 11:59PM PKT.
Please refrain from commenting more than once, as multiple entries will disqualify you from the giveaway.
Let's work together to improve connectivity in Pakistan!
Approved by DP
Comments
I am the first commenter. aha, congratulations to Virtury for his contribution to Pakistan.
I never think about LET People have ASN with /24 IPv4 sit idling and have VPS for BGP at same time, but perhaps its great opportunity to have and improve connectivity.
participate
Sounds interesting - I'm in!
I could use the VM to add a PoP in Pakistan to my encrypted DNS project (see my signature).
I'm in!
BGP at a rare location sounds fun.
count me in! It's so cool to use my own ip in Pakistan.
Operating an https://mtr.tools API node
Already have a /24 and /48
Good thing
Count me in. DMed with the ASN.
If it is anycasted, it isn't idle.
count me in - asn in dms
I own more /48
participatee
Have ASN and have /48 ipv6 @Virtury
Would love to get this vm giveaway 😍
count me in! I am very much looking forward to becoming a lucky person.
AS200690 is willing to participate.
Bit of a long AS-PATH but sure!
Count me in
participate
Count me in too, love to have presence in rare location.
i wanna it...🍺
Sure.
I received this deal but am having trouble installing the system.
To ensure standard environment, I strongly prefer to install every system from ISO or Netboot.xyz.
While I can boot Netboot.xyz via iPXE or Grub, it is not recognizing the UP and DOWN keys on the menu.
Nevertheless, PgUp and PgDn keys are working.
Thus, I can select the first or last menu entry, but not any other menu entries.
Is there a way to solve this?
Also, I must do a reboot in noVNC to see anything.
Otherwise, all I get is "starting serial terminal on interface serial0".
Is there a way to solve this?
I eventually opened ticket and it's resolved.
The answer is: I have gone ahead and changed the monitor type from serial to VGA.
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2019/09/display-devices-in-qemu/
Has anyone who received a VM been able to get their sessions up and running?
I've checked BGP.tools but don't see any downstreams for Virtury's AS?
My session is Established, but there's zero incoming route, and outgoing routes aren't reaching Internet.
By this rate, I probably won't have a Pakistani POP until LIR deletes ASN when the €50 fee appears.
I bought a bigger VM to handle my stuff - 64gb ram etc.
After waiting for 2 weeks BGP was established but it didnt properly propagate within Pakistan and also Pakistan Telecom AS17557 was filtering dst port 53 for my prefixes
I was told they will contact them and they will resolve also the propagation issues
2 weeks later i contacted them asking whats going on , I was told their NOC guy Sid is on vacation till the 23rd of June - conveniently - 2 days after the second invoice due date.
I cancelled the VM