Re: Mauritius Internet Exchange Point Adventures

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:01:37 -0700

Hi Logan,
At 12:33 22-10-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>I talk about my experience with the Mauritius IXP here, and my
>attempt at making the Internet in Mauritius having some initial success:

There isn't any technical information in your blog article. Could
you please add some technical data if you would like me to comment about it?

This is a traceroute output to the OTAM web site (the web site is
hosted locally):

  1 197.226.208.1 (197.226.208.1) 1.218 ms 1.334 ms 1.390 ms
  2 197.226.251.86 (197.226.251.86) 1.329 ms 1.420 ms 1.633 ms
  3 as36882.mixp.org (196.223.0.3) 1.879 ms 2.179 ms 1.638 ms
  4 196.192.69.129 (196.192.69.129) 2.607 ms 1.800 ms 1.694 ms
  5 196.192.69.134 (196.192.69.134) 1.891 ms 1.935 ms 2.94 ms
  6 10.11.0.82 (10.11.0.82) 3.175 ms 2.855 ms 2.935 ms
  7 ravenala-demo.dcl.mu (196.192.64.46) 3.119 ms 3.468 ms 3.20 ms

The connection is going through MIXP, the local internet exchange
point. In your blog article, you commented that "I do the same test
from Emtel to Orange, and I get 78ms as latency". That is still very high.

The information for mixp.org is as follows:

   Domain ID: D175296742-LROR
   Creation Date: 2015-02-12T12:04:36Z
   Updated Date: 2015-08-18T10:13:47Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2016-02-12T12:04:36Z
   Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, LLC (R91-LROR)
   Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 146

   Admin Organization:Data Communications Ltd
   Admin Street: 1/F Cnr Mgr Gonin
   Admin Street: and Lislet Geoffroy Streets
   Admin City:Port Louis
   Admin State/Province:Not Applicable
   Admin Postal Code:PL
   Admin Country:MU

Shouldn't the organisation be Mauritius Internet Exchange Point
(MIXP) instead of Data Communications Ltd?

There are currently 10 members peering at MIXP. The average monthly
traffic (IN and OUT) is 51 Mb/s. In my opinion, there is virtually
very little traffic going through the local internet exchange point.

According to MIXP its secretariat is AfriNIC. What is AfriNIC
managing the local internet exchange point?

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Thu Oct 22 2015 - 20:02:43 PST

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