Jason Gintert

Well this is kinda scary 😳https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

For Unbound: trust-anchor-file is static and never learns 38696 on its own. auto-trust-anchor-file does, via RFC 5011, but needs write access to the file and its directory, so check resolvers running from read-only mounts or container images.

David Huberman from ICANN shared at #ABQNOG that the DNS root KSK rollover is October 11. Running a DNSSEC-validating resolver? Confirm KSK-2024 (key tag 38696) is in your trust anchors if not, every query SERVFAILs. Not the DNS gal or guy? Pass this along! www.icann.org/resources/pa...

Everyone is obsessing over building giant gigawatt AI data centers, but the future of inference could actually be sitting inside old telecom central offices. 🏢⚡️ New blog post here: www.bitsinflight.com/ai-inference...

Total blast to join @scottrobohn.bsky.social! Give it a listen.

Every network engineer has a telecom procurement horror story. Lightyear showed up at #NFD40 and made a case to fix it. Their "Telecom Operating System" covers procurement, inventory and expense management, all in one tidy SaaS bitsinflight.com/lightyear-nfd40-buying-bandwidth/

@AristaNetworks's #NFD40 session gave us a very useful AI networking framework. Check out what they are doing with Networking for AI including Ethernet Scale Up Networking (ESUN), Extra-Dense Pluggable Optics (XPO) and more in my new blog: bitsinflight.com/arista-nfd40-modern-fabrics-for-ai/

Here we go with Upscale AI! #NFD40: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMTh...

Getting an education on XPO optics from Vijay Vusirikala from Arista Networks. This density is insane! #NFD40

Have heard a lot from all the vendors building networking for AI at #NFD40. Brendan from Arista Networks is doing a great job of breaking down the different architectures and the Arista differentiators.

Here we go! Tune in to see what Arista Networks is up to, we start in about 5 minutes (4/9 8a PT) #NFD40 techfieldday.com/event/nfd40/

LLMs and AI are Processing Data Telemetry Overnight 📊 🧠 Jason Gintert talks about a powerful use case for LLMs in network operations: overnight data processing. #TFDPodcast #NFD40 #Networking #LLMs #DataTelemetry #DataProcessing #NetworkData

A couple of Nokia Validated Designs (NVD) shared with us today at #NFD40.

It's interesting how @nokia.bsky.social is positioning their validated design guides as a product that gets a support life and that gets yearly updates. That's a far cry from many vendors that create a validated design and then ignore it for a decade. #nfd40

#NFD40 starts at 8a PT! Tune in here: techfieldday.com/event/nfd40/

Guess who is in San Jose for #NFD40? This guy ✋ See presenters and presentation times here: techfieldday.com/event/nfd40/ To stream the event live, watch here: youtube.com/@techfieldday Or at the main event page above. Use #NFD40 to ask any questions you have of the presenters. So stoked!

Had a blast joining @pjwelcher.bsky.social, @scottrobohn.bsky.social & @networkingnerd.net on this @techfieldday.com podcast. What are the biggest challenge you encounter when dealing with network telemetry in your network? 🤔

Join us next week for #NFD40! Super stoked to be a delegate again and this is a killer one. Don't miss it!

Your network isn't a collection of parts, it's a whole system and your "simple" changes prove it every time something breaks somewhere you didn't expect. David Bohm meets network engineering. www.bitsinflight.com/the-network-...

Stoked to be a delegate again for #NFD40! Tune in April 8–April 10, 2026 to see presentations. Help us delegates ask the tough questions about their announcements. Use #NFD40 day of on your social platform of choice and we'll get your questions asked. techfieldday.com/event/nfd40/

Heading to NANOG96 in a few weeks? Let’s connect! DM me to coordinate a meetup. Should be a good one! nanog.org/events/nanog... #NANOG96

Network automation: $15B now, $30B by 2028. #Autocon4 showed the industry has grown up. Proven ROI, real frameworks and honest talk about what's actually holding teams back. The tech works. Now it's psychology. bitsinflight.com/autocon4-network-automation-gets-all-grown-up/

This is pretty big news and likely cements MCP as the open standard for integrating data with AI. www.anthropic.com/news/donatin...

Got my brand spankin new #Autocon challenge coin! It got an upgrade, this guy is thick. I just can't put into words how much I enjoy this conference. The community that rallies around this organization, event and mission is remarkable. #networkautomationforum #autocon4

Hoping to get another one of these babies this week! Also anticipating some amazing presentations and conversations. Anyone else going to Network Automation Forum’s #Autocon4 in Austin?! If so, let’s meet up! Send a DM and we’ll connect. I’m attending Weds-Fri and am so excited.

Tech layoffs making this piece from earlier this year hit different. Key lesson: Every opportunity for me came through helping others without keeping score. Your real network isn't your follower count, it's the people you've actually helped along the way. www.bitsinflight.com/lessons-from...

I've spent a few months building AI integrations for network monitoring systems and learned a thing or two that I share here. If you're a network engineer wondering about your career trajectory in an AI world, you might want to check this out. www.bitsinflight.com/ai-wont-repl... #Networking #AI

I'd argue that AI isn’t just the future of networking, it’s the present. We’re already seeing production systems that let you interact with a network in plain English, across tools and vendors, without logging into a dozen dashboards. Read here: www.laketec.com/2025/09/16/a...

I'm wondering if we are going to have an announcement from Palo Alto Networks regarding a new zero day exploit for Global Protect? Has anyone else noticed an impact to their Global Protect infrastructure? thehackernews.com/2025/10/scan...

Today's soundtrack: Cloakroom's Dissolution Wave 🎵 This album has owned my ears for 3 years straight and I'm still not tired of it. If you're new to Cloakroom, start with "Dissembler" from this album. What's in your rotation right now? I'm always hunting for the next album to obsesses over.

‼️Running Cisco ASAs / Firepower? You need to check this out to see if you are affected.‼️ CISA has issued Emergency Directive 25-03 regarding a widespread zero-day campaign targeting Cisco ASA and Firepower devices. It’s pretty bad, patch now. www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

Wonder what the @usnua.com is all about? I had the opportunity to talk about it in the spring at #NFD37. Here's a run down from @networkingnerd.net with a video of the presentation. Thanks to Tom and @techstronggroup.bsky.social for the platform to spread the word! techstrong.it/itsm/meeting...

Behold, the Cisco FastHub 108T from 1997 - when 100Mbps shared bandwidth was cutting-edge and we lived without VLANs or auto-negotiation. Almost 30 years later, this single collision domain relic really shows how spoiled we've become with modern networking. (Yes, that's an OUI transceiver on top 🙂)

Big OpenAI news: - They have open source models! Pretty stoked to give oss-gpt-20b a shot on my machine. openai.com/open-models/ - ChatGPT 5 is being released during a livestream at 10a PT today. www.theverge.com/news/720114/... AI advancement marches on!

⚠️ Aruba Instant-On users: Critical vulns in AP firmware ≤3.2.0.1 - via hardcoded passwords + command injection. Patch ASAP. Awkward timing with HPE having to divest this under DOJ's Juniper deal terms. Details: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

GPT 5, coming soon! www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...

Happy Friday, everyone! 🎶 Currently spinning: "Low on Foot" LP by Slow Mass, a recent favorite of mine. Look at that beautiful speckled vinyl! Any tunes brightening your day? Share top picks below! Wishing you all a fantastic end to the week and hope your summer has been awesome! 🌞

Anyone else notice @cloudflare.social’s DNS service down for a bit for 1.1.1.1 on Monday 7/14? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, everyone should be this open and transparent so that folks in the community can learn from these sorts of events. blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...

Wow, HPE Networking has been busy. Their Agentic AI Mesh announcement at HPE Discover, a strong position in the Gartner MQ and DOJ approval of the Juniper buy are some major highlights. The question remains: will they capitalize on their championship window? www.bitsinflight.com/hpe-networki...

COME HANG OUT WITH ME! (OH)NUG Cleveland is this Thursday 7/10 at the Wild Eagle, 5001 E Royalton Rd, Broadview Heights, OH 44147. Free food, free drink and a big helping of network knowledge. Sign up here: www.usnua.com/ohnug-clevel.... Space is filling fast! #OHNUG #USNUA @usnua.com

It’s official! That was a long leak cycle www.arista.com/en/solutions...

Big news! HPE’s acquisition of Juniper is going to proceed. I’m sure HPE would have preferred this news dropped before Discover but at least they didn’t have to wait until mid July 🙂 Buckle up everyone! Looks like a wild ride ahead. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

You at HPE Discover? Hey, me too! Let’s hang. Message me and let’s see if we can connect. #HPEDiscover2025 #HPE #Aruba

So here's a rare personal post where I wanted to share a little bit of a backyard performance from my daughter Eliza's band. They're called Learner and they're really good. If you dig em, you should go see them if they end up near you. Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/learner.oh/. So proud 🥺

So awesome to join Phil and Phil on this episode. School networks are different but so rewarding!

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium have finally completed standard v1.0! I know many vendors have been working hard to hammer this standard out and it’s completion ought to do a lot to advance networking in AI and HPC. ultraethernet.org/ultra-ethern...

Pretty fascinating research and reporting by the incomparable @eldomador. It’s just awful what the Ukrainian people are going through. Though not ideal, I can understand that these ISPs doing what they have to in order to survive and keep Ukrainians connected.

@benjojo.bsky.social does the work to track down another BGP event on the internet that caused some disruptions on May 20th, 2025. Thanks for the reporting, Ben. blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-att... Vendors and networks, please get on a fix for this before a larger, more impactful event happens!

The automation revolution has arrived on campus! Just returned from #OHECC2025 where universities like UC and OU are transforming IT with platform engineering and cutting deployment times by 80-95% and freeing staff to innovate rather than babysit infrastructure: www.bitsinflight.com/platform-eng...

packetpushers.net/podcasts/tot... @0xmc.bsky.social said one thing that sticks with me from this #TNOps conversation: "...the amount of things that you can just learn on your own is incredible." Thanks again #nanog for hosting #TNOps on the road! #netops @packetpushers.bsky.social @usnua.com