Author: Ty Dwagon (Marbled Fennec Networks / Risk Assessment)

With FurrIX being spun off from MFN and into its own project, theres a loose agreement in
place that benefits both projects and allows them to coexist on the same physical servers
and routers. Mostly in who manages what being clearly defined now.

Marbled Fennec Networks:

• Provides the two name servers
• Maintains the IP allocations and leases them directly to FurrIX
• Maintains the game servers, email and support systems
• Provides support for their single user tunnels, managed by FurrIX
• Maintains the web host
• No longer touches or operates the routing or network VMs
• Maintains and provides physical infrastructure for both projects
• Provides financial backing for FurrIX until Jan 20th, 2028
• Maintains private peering with FurrIX via internal BGP

FurrIX, a Furry Virtual Internet Exchange:

• Directly leases the /44 and /48 IPv6 allocations without cost from Marbled Fennec Networks
• Maintains, designs and operates the network that forms the virtual internet exchange
• Provides and configures networking service(s) for Marbled Fennec Networks without cost
• Maintains the two name servers
• Maintains and Provides IP transit and tunneling services
• Maintains private peering with MFN via internal BGP
• Focuses solely on being a network service provider

Transitional Items of Interest:

• Ty Dwagon becomes the owner and operator of Marbled Fennec Networks
• Adrian/Skylar becomes the owner and operator of FurrIX
• The two projects provide one another with services that the other needs to function without cost and expectation (think settlement-free peering and sharing of the hardware/virtual environment)

This agreement is in place to the benefit of both projects and the spin off of FurrIX was done to
allow the virtual internet exchange to govern itself and expand at its own pace without approval
or interference from Marbled Fennec Networks, as long as network services are provided to
MFN on an as needed and requested basis. As of this post, FurrIX is no longer a subproject of Marbled Fennec Networks. It is a self governing, standalone project that we have entered into an agreement with for the foreseeable future.

Will we still be seeing the cute banners and VR pictures getting thrown up?

Yea, that won’t be changing. Adrian is still part of the VR crew and her pictures will still be featured on both our website and FurrIX’s. It is cute and we like it, adds a little character to both places.

The NOC raptor has updated our drop list, adding a handful of ASNs and network ranges to the table. We have been seeing a lot of website related scanning and some attempts. Probably should look into getting Fail2Ban running on the web server at some point in the future.

I am aware about the guest book ongoings. Just ignore the guy and put the entries into spam. This is someone who we have been dealing with for a while, we know what’s up, just leave it alone.

Just a quick check in from our project for our members and end users,
Wanted to wish you all a happy holidays and hope Dec 25th went well for you. Our team has gotten both of our Minecraft servers launched, most of the migration to our new address ranges has been performed and our Satisfactory instance seems to be running fairly well.

There have been some changes making their way into our routing gear and various servers as we are starting to disallow incoming VPN traffic due to abuse and malice that has been knocking on the door. This is being done to ensure our operations remain safe and sane. We are also talking about increasing the monthly data allowance for our members to 800GB per month instead of 600GB, so that is most likely a welcome change.

We are also looking at possibly increasing our storage space on the primary server to be able to host more games since we still have a fair amount of idle CPU power, so maybe something will come of that shortly.