Ryan Bagley

https://rb.ax

A blog about network infrastructure security and internet policy from the perspective of a network engineer.

Ryan Bagley

Entries

  • Iran's BGP Behavior under Fire

    Iran’s HTTP requests from February 24 to March 8, 2026 from the perspective of Cloudflare. Courtesy of Cloudflare Rad...

  • Street Photography at Sundance Film Festival 2026

    Western mob wife appears to have been the overarching clothing aesthetic at the last Sundance Film Festival in the st...

  • Anatomy of Iran's Internet

    I’m slightly addicted to reading the news but I often forget about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. This describes the p...

  • Chrome Featured Extension Is Actually A Scraper Network

    Update on January 30, 2026: A MyBib developer contacted me about this extension’s behavior. They confirmed that this ...

  • 2025 Running Review

    An early morning sweaty run along the Jiangbeizui Riverbank Park in Chongqing, China on July 24, 2025. A comparable e...

  • Mine, All Mine

    Gustav Holst, The Planets, op. 32, Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William Steinberg, Deutsche Grammophon, 19...

  • Street Photography in Chongqing

    Chongqing (重庆市) has taken the triple crown of sweatiest, most crowded, and hectic place I’ve ever been to in my entir...

  • Cisco Live 2025

    Although Cisco Live suffers from zeitgeist mania, with this year being AI, there are still a lot of value from sessio...

  • Would China Target Taiwan’s Submarine Internet Cables During Invasion?

    Map of major international submarine internet cables near Taiwan. Source: TeleGeography. The seemingly ever present t...

  • Installing Ratgdo and Fighting Technofeudalism

    Full install kit for a Ratgdo v2.53i. In late in 2023 the Chamberlain Group, who makes the popular garage door opener...

  • Using ExifTool to Set Dates Based on Filename

    ExifTool has been a surprisingly useful piece of software in my recent quest to archive all of my family photographs....

  • 2024 Running Review

    Late Spring on a nearby mountain trail in Centerville, Utah. In 2024 I ran a total of 2,389 miles, which is an increa...

  • How to Clean Up Image Filenames with F2

    Archiving your personal collection of family images can quickly become a mess without some sort of organizational app...

  • 16-bit BGP Community Architecture

    There are a lot of reasons a network engineer might use a 16-bit BGP community tag in an enterprise environment. It c...

  • It Doesn't Matter if Baltic Submarine Cable Cuts Were Sabotage

    Map of the C-Lion1 Submarine Cable path from Finland to Germany. Source: TeleGeography. The recent severing of submar...

  • Perfect Image Processing with Hugo

    With the correct image processing you can still get a 100 score from PageSpeed Insights despite an image heavy articl...

  • BGP Route Origin Authorization Regulation

    Recent heightened scrutiny of government regulation surrounding BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ROA (Route Origin Autho...

  • Meta Ends Direct Peering with Deutsche Telekom

    On Wednesday, Meta announced1 it was ending its direct peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom (DT) due to the fee...

  • Madeira Submarine Cables

    I recently visited the Island of Madeira on vacation and was impressed with their internet speed. For an island in a ...

  • Speedgoat 50K 2024 Race Report

    The energy at the beginning of any race is exhilarating. Tapering for weeks after intense training leaves me with ton...