The Hedge

The Hedge


Latest Episodes

Hedge 262: Stealthy BGP Attacks
March 13, 2025

Many providers count on detection in the global routing table to discover and counter BGP route hijacks. What if there were a kind of BGP hijack that cannot be detected using current mechanisms? Hen

Hedge 261: The NTIA, Spectrum, and Broadband
March 01, 2025

In the United States, the National Telecommunications and Infrastructure Administration manages spectrum and researches the current state of Internet connectivity for policy makers. Henning Schulzrinn

Hedge 260: The State of the DFZ
February 21, 2025

Trends in the global BGP table--the Default Free Zone (DFZ) table--can tell us a lot about the state of the global Internet. Is the Internet growing? Is IPv6 growing, or are we still in a world of "al

Hedge 259: Architecture and Process
February 14, 2025

We often try to "institutionalize" things that work into repeatable processesand most of the time, it doesn't work. The process ends up becoming unwieldy, eventually failing to prevent failures and s

Hedge 258: pyATS and Testing Through Automation
February 07, 2025

We often think of network automation as a configuration tool, but automation can also be used for one-off, integration, and even continuous testing. Dan Wade joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to talk abo

Hedge 257: Gaining Experience in IT
January 31, 2025

Every recruiter and hiring manager wants people with five years of experience, but you cannot get experience without being hired into a position. How can you break this conundrum? Daniel Dib joins Tom

Hedge 256: The Impact of Your First Language
January 24, 2025

Richard Wexelblat published an article in 1980 titled: "The consequences of one's first programming language." We've all seen C code written like Python, or Python code written like C, so it's obvious

Hedge 255: Open Multi-perspective Issuance
January 17, 2025

One of the various attack surfaces in encryption is insuring the certificates used to share the initial set of private keys are not somehow replaced by an attacker. In systems where a single server or

Hedge 254: Should you /64?
January 10, 2025

One of the big questions about IPv6 is: "Should you use /64's for subnets?" Tom Coffeen joins Eyvonne Sharp, Rick Graziani, and Russ as we discuss the various questions surrounding IPv6 addressing, pl

Hedge 253: Touch Grass!
December 13, 2024

In this episode of the Hedge, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ talk about whether Intel will survive, centralization and industrial spying, and why you need to go touch grass and read a book.