To prevent spam and abuse, direct outbound SMTP (port 25) is blocked on our network from all r64 ips. Authenticated mail submission to all major email providers and relay services is fully supported now — simply use your provider's submission server on port 587 (STARTTLS) or 465 (SSL/TLS); relay/ESP services may also use 2525.

Now reachable:

Mailbox providers: Gmail, Outlook / Microsoft 365, Yahoo, Apple iCloud, QQ, NetEase (163/126), Mail.ru, Yandex, Naver, GMX, web.de, T-Online
Relay / ESP services: Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, SparkPost, Mailjet, Brevo, SMTP2GO, Elastic Email, Mandrill

Looks like some issues on r1-ams-nl. The ip transit from ifog is down and die ip as well as the gw is not reachable from internal or external. Any other sessions over different transit or ixp is not affect, Just the tunnel endpoint ip provided by ifog. Ticket has been dropped.

Housekeeping was to aggressive and had an issue on some to detect the right state. Some tunnels has been deleted but the may had activity.

Housekeeping has been disabled for now to identify the root cause. Please recreate your tunnels/sessions.

Dallas node, sponsored by Lagless.GG, now aquired by Shift Hosting LLC will not continue the sponsoring. Node will be closed and terminated Thursday (06.08.) evening CEST. Unfortunately for the short notice and not caused by r64. Please migrate the tunnels to other nodes. Thanks to Lagless for the sponsored time.

r1-mci-us (mci1.us) is not reachable, also bmc is not longer working. Might be a hardware issue. Support has been requested.

Please move to r2-mci-us until issue is resolved.

Hello,

we have disabled the prefix collector. Thus accepted, reject and filtered prefix will not be visible in the manager portal. Prefix collector generates a lot load on the routers which can cause some issues. We'll look into some optimization to bring this later back.

I'm happy to announce that static ips are also available in North America region now. The manager has been updated as well to allow you to choose the region and afi for static ips. Static ips are only possible via sponsor tokens to cover the costs.

Next News: New PoP in Paris (par1) is now live!

  We’re super excited to announce that our network just got a major upgrade in France!

Thanks to the amazing support from our partners, we’ve activated a brand-new location (par1) in the City Nanterre (Paris region):

Colocation sponsored by → huge thanks to moji

IP Transit provided by → massive shoutout to MilkyWan

IXP connectivity & overall support → big props to nine-ix

The new point of presence runs on our own hardware and is connected directly to nine-ix with a solid 10G port. Route64 has also joined nine-ix with 10G – another step forward! With this addition we can now offer significantly better latency, higher redundancy, and much more capacity across France. Paris (and the surrounding region) is now much more reachable with top-tier performance.

A massive thank you goes out to: nine-ix – for the excellent IXP platform and all the help moji – for generously sponsoring the colocation MilkyWan – for the reliable and high-quality IP transit None of this would have been possible without you – you rock! We’re continuing to grow the network the way we love: together with friendly, competent, and like-minded partners. Got questions about the new PoP, routing, or want to give it a spin? Just reach out!

Maintenance: I plan to perform important software upgrades for stability on following routers one by one: ams1.nl, ams2.nl, mci1.us, mci2.us, fra2.de, fra3.de, yyz1.us, frm1.us ash1.us, arn1.se. I will start with ams1.nl (core ams) tomorrow (06.01.) in the evening (CET). Next following node will be announced shortly. I plan 2 hours for core nodes (software vendor change) and for edge nodes 1 hour (just software upgrade). After that ams1.nl and mci1.us will be also back in the game for tunnel, tunnelbroker, anycast tunnels and bgp sessions.

Bonjour France! Route64 reached the France country and expanded to additional Europe country. We have configured and activated a new pop in Paris, France (par1.fr). This was able with the help of DYJIX SAS (https://dyjix.eu/) which provides the server and ip transit for our community. Merci Dyjix!

Planned outage: Router lon1.uk must be upgraded. This will cause an interruption for at least 2 hours starting this evening 17.10.25 CEST.

Hey,

we have improved the manager portal over the last few weeks and enabled a great new feature called Sponsor Level. This cool feature allows additional functions in the future.

Now, you can increase your user limits for ASNs, BGP tunnel, tunnelbroker,.. via a few clicks. You only need to have some sponsor tokens left to increase the limits for a month. There are some levels available where you can easily up and downgrade your account.

During this change we adjusted the default limits for all users to prevent high abnormal usage and abuse. But, you can increase your limits as required.

Bad news again, I got the notice from the provider of yyz1.ca, fra1.de (now fra2.de) and lon1.uk that they might shutdown the company. The situation is unclear at their side, but I got some notification that there supplier will cancel the service to them.

So, we have to plan an unplanned migration of yyz1.ca, fra1.de (now fra2.de) and lon1.uk to newer systems. This will affect the tunnel endpoint ip and must be changed on your side.

Fra1.de already has an alternative node. Tunnels and sessions of fra1.de (now fra2.de) will be migrated. You have to change the tunnel endpoint ip on your side. There will be a message when this will be happen. yyz1.ca and lon1.uk requires an successor. I already order replacements for yyz1.ca and lon1.uk.

Sorry for this unplanned change.

Rollout of a new version of the manager has been done. Big one! Main topics of this change:

• ADD: (Sponsor feature) Anycast feature, you can allocate IPv4 and IPv6 anycast subnets and use them with multiple tunnels.
• ADD: Support for multiple connections (ips) on same Internet Exchange.
• ADD: VXLAN tunnel support for IPv4 and IPv6.
• ADD: Cleaning of BGP session states after 30mins when missing data feed.
• ADD: Auto clamping for tunnels based on pmtu.

Next exciting news from Route64 this week: A new sponsor is there and provides a new location with resources and transit within Europe. I can happily announce a new location in Italy. Node mxp1.it is now available and provides our service to the great community in Italy. Please send LakeNetworks (https://lakenetworks.it/) big greetings. I have to say, thanks for you your great effort. Enjoy the new node and check them out.

What's about LakeNetworks:

LakeNetworks (https://lakenetworks.it/) provides cloud solutions, including Cloud Services, VPS Hosting, Web Hosting, Colocation, and IP Transit from Como, Italy. We ensure reliable performance and connectivity for your projects. Join us and discover how we can help grow your digital presence.

Great news, for today! We are heading to the east and expanding in this direction. We got an sponsored IX port from PITER-IX FRA at NIKHEF. The guys from PITER-IX (Piter-IX Co. Ltd.) are sponsoring the port and I organized the cross-connect. This port increases the access and capacity to networks of the east and allows us to exchange traffic directly swith them. We are very happy that PITER-IX is doing the sponsoring and thanking them for their support. If you are looking for IX ports, check them out!

Node [kcm1.us] is completely down including connections to SIX and GCP. I haven’t got any reply from the sponsor, so sponsoring of this node ends as it looks like. It was great and thanks for the sponsoring!

I will remove all tunnels and connections within the next few days.

Currently, I looking for replacement within Kansas City including the option for IXP access. If you can sponsor a node at Kansas City with connection to SIX please reach me out (j@route64.org).

Great news: We are happy to announce that ROUTE64 got found an additional infrastructure sponsor. Macarne LLC (https://macarne.com/) has joined the ROUTE64 community and sponsors IPv4 and IPv6 transit at Amsterdam, Netherlands. The connectivity via Macarne LLC has massively improved the traffic mix within ROUTE64. For example just one AS between ROUTE64 and DTAG. Enjoy it. Do you looking for great IP transit, Ethernet services or L2 transport. Just get with them in contact!

Rollout of a new version of the manager has been done.

Main topics of this change:

• Realtime tunnel / tunnelbroker operations. All tunnel / tunnelbroker operations on router side are processed in realtime. Get realtime data of your tunnel creation states - detailed states of tunnel operation. No need to wait few minutes until tunnel is configured. Click and wait until state changed to Active (few seconds).
• Templates fixed for messages.

We have a new sponsor of ipv4 and ipv6 transit in our Frankfurt and London locations. AS203446 (https://as203446.net/) is sponsoring ip transit for route64. Do you need DDoS protection, get with them in touch!

We have great success with our tunnelbroker service. Currently, just fully loaded. We have added additional tunnelbroker resources at Amsterdam (node ams1.nl). We'll add additional resources in other locations too.

Have fun!

Great news: I can announce that we have a new node (ams1.nl) ready at Amsterdam, Netherlands which will have great connectivity to a bunch of IXPs, transits,.. starting with SpeedIX. This node will also have free capacity for tunnelbroker (no bgp) services.

Rollout of a new version of the manager has been done. Main topics of this change:

• FIX: An issue which prevents users to add new or additional asns. This has been fixed.

Rollout of a new version of the manager has been done.

Main topics of this change:

• FIX: Max downstream values are not accepted sometimes when multiple accounts using same asn.
• FIX: BGP session update fails when bgp session is disabled.

Outage: [FRM1.US] Currently the IPv6 bgp session to transit provider lost. I have raised a ticket regarding the issue. IPv4 transit is not affected.

Update: Service has been restored.