May 1999 - NZNOG - lists.nznog.org

The New Zealand Network Operators' Group
by Donald Neal 09 May '99

09 May '99

The New Zealand Network Operators' Group The New Zealand Network Operators' Group (NZNOG) has neither a king, a president nor a formal membership. At present it consists of the subscribers to this mailing list, which anyone is free to join. (At last count the list had 79 subscribers, with the count growing slightly each month.) The NZNOG mailing list is provided through a server at The University of Waikato, and is administered by an employee of Telecom NZ Ltd. Neither of these organisations (nor the administrator) is responsible for its content. NZNOG Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy The NZNOG mailing list exists to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of implementation issues that require cooperation among New Zealand network service providers. In order to continue to provide a useful forum for discussion of relevant technical issues, users of the list are asked to respect the following guidelines. 1. Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues. 2. Discussion related to meetings of network service providers is appropriate. 3. Discussion unrelated to these topics is not appropriate. 4. Postings to multiple mailing lists are discouraged. 5. Postings that include foul language, character assassination, and lack of respect for other participants are unacceptable. 6. Blatant product or service marketing is unacceptable. 7. Postings of a political, philosophical or legal nature are discouraged. 8. Postings to the list should be in ASCII or MIME encoded as text/plain. Attachments should not be sent to the list. To present a document,. a suitable URL may be referred to. For documents of general interest, the use of proprietary file formats is discouraged. 9. Breaches of list etiquette should be dealt with privately with the offending list user, and should not result in complaints being sent to the list. Mailing List Archives A full archive is available at http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/nznog/ To search the archive, see http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/search.html (and remember to select nznog). Subscribing to the List To subscribe to the NZNOG list, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz, where the body of the message reads subscribe nznog There are at present no restrictions on who may subscribe to the list, or even on who may post to the list. Digest Mailing List If you don't wish to receive postings as they are sent, you can instead subscribe to the nznog-digest mailiing list, on which all postings are sent out in a single "digest" every couple of days. Other Activities NZNOG does not at present have other regular activities than this mailing list, though some Auckland subscribers have been known to meet over beer. Donald Neal NZNOG Mailing List Owner/Administrator/Muggins --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Domainz Website Update - Week Ending 16 May 1999
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 09 May '99

09 May '99

>This will result in changes to the e-mail template, changes to the information >required, changes to the validation rules, changes to the web form layout. > >The reason for posting is to alert you to those chagnes, and signal that we >intend to have the changes drafted and published on-site by next Tuesday. Are these changes a proposal for comment by ISP's or have decisions already been made? regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Domainz Website Update - Week Ending 16 May 1999
by Patrick O'Brien 09 May '99

09 May '99

Dear list members, For your information, we've just posted an update to the Domainz site. You should note that we are about to make some changes to the DOMAIN NAME RECORD (what we colloquially call the "30 fields") This will result in changes to the e-mail template, changes to the information required, changes to the validation rules, changes to the web form layout. The reason for posting is to alert you to those chagnes, and signal that we intend to have the changes drafted and published on-site by next Tuesday. My regards, Patrick ************************ The Domainz News pages have now been updated, and can be found at http://www.domainz.net.nz/newsstand/news.html Key areas of interst are 1. Changes to Domain Record ("30 fields") 2. WIPO RFC 4 3. Statistics: Over 32,000 domains registered. My Regards, Maria Arnott Customer Service Voice: 04 473 4567 Fax: 04 473 4569 email: m.arnott(a)domainz.net.nz web: http://www.domainz.net.nz _______________________________________________ List server provided by 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz To remove your address from this list please send a message to board-request(a)domainz.net.nz with LEAVE BOARD in the body. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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[paul@vix.com: F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET is no longer open for AXFR of COM, NET, or ORG]
by Joe Abley 03 May '99

03 May '99

Just in case anybody cares :) ----- Forwarded message from Paul A Vixie <paul(a)vix.com> ----- Delivered-To: nanog-outgoing(a)merit.edu Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 15:12:05 -0700 From: Paul A Vixie <paul(a)vix.com> Subject: F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET is no longer open for AXFR of COM, NET, or ORG Precedence: bulk Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing(a)merit.edu X-Loop: nanog ------- Blind-Carbon-Copy To: nobody Subject: F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET is no longer open for AXFR of COM, NET, or ORG Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 15:12:05 -0700 From: Paul A Vixie <vixie(a)bb.rc.vix.com> (sent to the NANOG, IETF, and NAMEDROPPERS lists to catch everybody who cares.) Today we (Internet Software Consortium, Inc) received a verified request from the US-DOC asking that we disable public zone transfers for the COM, NET and ORG zones from now until July 23. This is part of a controlled experiment designed to uncover the actual uses and users of this information. ISC recognizes US-DOC as one of the parties authorized to make such a request, and so we have complied with it as of Mon May 3 14:57:39 1999 (Pacific). All users who have been fetching the COM, NET, or ORG zones from F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET should during this interrim period contact Network Solutions for access. Unless instructed otherwise by US-DOC, IANA, or ICANN, we plan to restore public access to the COM, NET, and ORG zones from F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET during the morning of July 23, 1999. (signed) Paul Vixie (Chairman) Internet Software Consortium ------- End of Blind-Carbon-Copy ----- End forwarded message ----- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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NZ Promiscuous Relay Survey (re-test)
by Joe Abley 01 May '99

01 May '99

Hi, Last night I re-ran my promiscuous relay tests on the exact same list of NZ mail relays as I tested last time, in order to see whether there was any improvement. The results, in the same meagre format as before, are: Out of 3791 MX hosts that I tried to use as a relay: January April 269 (7%) 319 (8%) accepted our message, but later bounced it 1208 (32%) 768 (20%) relayed our message Of the messages that were relayed: 929 (76%) 573 (74%) were from hosts named under co.nz 33 (2%) 15 (1%) were from hosts named under net.nz 72 (5%) 52 (6%) were from hosts named under govt.nz 15 (1%) 14 (1%) were from hosts named under ac.nz 22 (1%) 18 (2%) were from hosts named under school.nz 0 (0%) 0 (0%) were from hosts named under iwi.nz 8 (0%) 6 (0%) were from hosts named under gen.nz 38 (3%) 21 (2%) were from hosts named under org.nz 1 (0%) 0 (0%) were from hosts named under mil.nz So! This looks like an improvement. Note that this re-test doesn't cover _all_ existing MX hosts in NZ; just those that were found in January using the methodology previously outlined. I will be running another test shortly which will walk the DNS once again to get a current list of MX hosts, and re-test to find the actual picture right now. Details are at http://www.patho.gen.nz/~jabley/survey.html Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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