Lots of Speaking Activity
After a quiet few pandemic years with no in-person events and the arrival of twins, my in-person presentation activity was minimal. My activity has started to increase, and there have…
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Why Are There So Many Default Routes In Azure?
Have you wondered why an Azure subnet with no route table has so many default routes? What the heck is 25.176.0.0/13? Or What is 198.18.0.0/15? And why are they routing to None?
The Scenario
You have deployed a virtual machine. The virtual machine is connected to a subnet with…
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