December 2004 - NZNOG - lists.nznog.org

list.waikato.ac.nz Has Moved
by Donald Neal 12 Dec '24

12 Dec '24

NZNOG-People, I have just finished migrating all of the mailing lists held at The University of Waikato from one server to another. I don't have any reason to believe that anything's gone wrong, but please bear with me for today if it turns out that something has. - Donald Neal -- Donald Neal | Q: How many Aucklanders does it take to change Systems Programmer/Analyst | a light bulb? The University of Waikato | A: Pass me that candle and I'll tell you. Hamilton, New Zealand | --------- 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: Sort of OT: are there any "Internet enabled" temperature sens ors/servers for Auckland?
by Greg Clare 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

May not be exactly what you are after? However DSE have an Internet weather station at the Albany HQ. http://www.dse.gen.nz/public/webdata/weather.htm Regards Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha(a)saarinen.org] > Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2002 2:47 pm > To: NZNOG > Subject: Sort of OT: are there any "Internet enabled" temperature > sensors/servers for Auckland? > > > Measuring the outside temperature, with geographic location given. > > -- > Juha > Take off every sig! > > - > To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > where the body of your message reads: > unsubscribe nznog > - 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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The New Zealand Network Operators' Group
by Donald Neal 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

The New Zealand Network Operators' Group The New Zealand Network Operators' Group (NZNOG) has no king, president or formal membership. At present it consists of the subscribers to this mailing list, which anyone is free to join. Meetings Our next annual conference is to be hosted by the WAND group in Hamilton on February 2nd to 4th, 2005. See http://www.nznog.org/ for more information, including the Call For Presentations. Offers to present are due in by 22nd October, and all presenters should have had their acceptance confirmed by 31st October. Also see http://auckland.thursdaynightcurry.com/ if you live in or near Auckland or Wellington. Operators' Contact List See http://www.usenet.net.nz/noc/ for operational contact details for most New Zealand ISP's. These are intended for use by other network operators, not by most customers. Internet Exchanges See http://www.ape.net.nz/ for details of the Auckland Peering Exchange and those connected there. See http://www.wix.net.nz/ for the Wellington Internet Exchange. About This Mailing List This list has slightly over 700 addresses subscribed. You may only post to the list from a subscribed address. A number of people subscribe addresses which do not receive email purely to allow posting from them. You may choose to receive postings as they come in, or just to receive daily "digests". See the bottom of the page http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog/ to change the form in which you receive postings. The NZNOG mailing list is provided through a server at The University of Waikato, and is administered by employees of Alcatel NZ Ltd, Citylink and Telecom. None of these organisations, nor any 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. 10. A person repeatedly breaching list etiquette shall receive warnings from the list administrator. A further breach after the second such warning within thirty days shall result in the offender being unsubscribed from the list. Other action may also be taken to block postings to the list by the offender. Any such unsubscription is to be immediately announced to the list. Mailing List Archives A full archive is available at http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/ Any message sent to the list will be archived and made available on the web automatically. Changes are not made to the archive on request, though the administrators remain happy to assist the Office of the Privacy Commissioner should any complaint be laid with that office. One way to search the archive is to use google and prefix your search with site:list.waikato.ac.nz . Subscribing to the List See http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog to subscribe. Donald Neal NZNOG Mailing List Owner/Administrator/Muggins Donald Neal |Palmersdale: Are you in charge here? Technical Specialist |The Doctor: No, but I'm full of Operations Engineering | ideas. Integration & Services Division +----------------------- Alcatel NZ Ltd - Telecom's network operations manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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problems with NTP on bigben?
by Simon Blake 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Anybody else observed that bigben gained about 19 years at about 1:25pm this arvo? $ date Tue Jan 1 14:54:33 NZDT 2002 $ /usr/sbin/ntpdate -q truechimer.waikato.ac.nz server 130.217.76.32, stratum 2, offset -0.001089, delay 0.04276 1 Jan 14:49:38 ntpdate[17537]: adjust time server 130.217.76.32 offset -0.001089 sec $ /usr/sbin/ntpdate -q bigben.clix.net.nz server 203.167.224.60, stratum 1, offset 619315199.998172, delay 0.03613 1 Jan 14:49:55 ntpdate[17540]: step time server 203.167.224.60 offset 619315199.998172 sec - 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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Telecom Outage
by Dream Net Internet 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

Hello Everyone, Happy New Year!! Does any one know of a Telecom outage around 8.30 last night (new years eve?) Regards Adam Fenech www.dreamnet.co.nz Check out our online store for great deals www.dreamnet.co.nz/store.html

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Upcoming webcast activity
by Richard Naylor 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

The following webcasting activity is scheduled for the next few days/weeks. While we don't expect large volumes of traffic, Operators may like to be aware of the activity, as some communities of interest are involved that may generate extra calls to Help Desks. Scouts Jamboree - about now until about 8 Jan ------------------------- We are webcasting their Radio Station and TV station. The URLs are http://www.r2.co.nz/meta.jamradio.asx http://www.r2.co.nz/meta/jamtv.asx These are in windows media 9 format - available from MS. We hope they leave the encoding PC alone long enough for people to be able to listen/watch. It was all go just before my cup of tea.........<sigh> Radio Tarana ------------------- Radio Tarana are now webcasting 24/7 - off their web site www.tarana.co.nz - they are an AKL based Hindi radio station, so locals may be interested. Because of content rights, this webcast may be restricted to NZ based clients only. Radio NZ -------------- National Radio will be starting a programme series on 1 Jan, with each programme available for listening "on-demand" afterwards. The topic is Split Enz so may be popular. Because of RIANZ rights issues, the content will only be available to NZ based clients, using Anycast routing into WIX, where the server is located. ISPs not peering at WIX may receive Help Desk calls asking why the content won't play. On the other hand the weather may be really good and no one will bother with any of this....... Happy Christmas and New Year - Rich

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Re: [nznog] [Inetnum object]
by Andy Linton 25 Dec '04

25 Dec '04

About a month ago Sid Jones and I had a conversation about one of his customers who has a /23 in this space. We raised the issue with APNIC and I attach the thread. There's a clear implication in the mail below that APNIC expect Telecom NZ to cooperate on this issue which seems to be at odds with their behaviour over 202.49.252.0 - 202.49.255.255 as David Robb has noted. I suggest a number of things here: 1) each ISP who routes portions of this block should encourage their customers to write to APNIC requesting that as this block was allocated via the University of Waikato which was operating as a proto NZNIC at the time then this address space should be deemed to be provider independent space which should be administered as other 'swamp' space. For example, here's a record that's recently been obscured as part of this exercise: inetnum: 202.36.137.0 - 202.36.137.255 > netname: NZMFE > descr: Ministry for the Environment > descr: P.O. Box 10-362 > descr: The Terrace > descr: Wellington > country: NZ > admin-c: MB22-AP > tech-c: MB22-AP > notify: dbmon(a)apnic.net > mnt-by: APNIC-HM > changed: hostmaster(a)apnic.net 19931217 > status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE > changed: hm-changed(a)apnic.net 20031020 > source: APNIC This is clearly PORTABLE space and makes no reference to Telecom NZ and the admin-c and tech-c details were updated just over a year ago. Note that this address was allocated in 1993 long before Netway (a Telecom NZ subsidiary) entered the picture at all. Why are APNIC changing the goal posts? 2) the customers should also write to Telecom NZ making clear that their portion of address space was not issued to Telecom NZ but to them by the University of Waikato (acting as a proto NZNIC) and that they want Telecom to relinquish control of this space back to APNIC. 3) I'd encourage APNIC to look again at this. 4) user groups such as InternetNZ, TUANZ etc need to get across this issue and raise it with Telecom NZ 5) I'd suggest the press get their teeth into this but that's probably not necessary as there's no story here. (:-) andy -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fwd: [APNIC #624302] 202.27.0.0/16 and http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/privacy-faq.html (fwd)] (fwd) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:20:59 +1000 (EST) From: John Tran <john(a)apnic.net> To: asjl(a)citylink.co.nz CC: Anne Lord <anne(a)apnic.net>, Elly Tawhai <elly(a)apnic.net>, Tim Jones <tim(a)apnic.net> Hi Andy, We have searched all our historical emails and records regarding NZNIC as well as all information relating to 202.27.0.0/16. Here is the summary of what we found. Before 1995, the following address ranges had been allocated by APNIC to the University of Waikato, which operated as a gateway for New Zealand, under the name NZGATE: 202.27/16 202.37/16 202.36/16 202.49/16 202.50/16 These ranges were allocated on the basis that NZGATE would make further allocations to their customers. In 1995, Netway Commnication Ltd took over the international gateway function from the University of Waikato and the IP addresses were transfered with APNIC's approval. Netway continued contracting University of Waikato staff to allocate IP addresses on Netway's behalf to its customers. NZNIC was then established by the University of Waikato to obtain provider independent addresses for other organisations like Clear Communication and Netlink. Netway was then transfered to NZtelecom in late 1997, along with the corresponding address space. In November 1998, because of the confusion in the Internet community in New Zealand about whether the address space that they obtained from the University of Waikato was portable or not, APNIC and Brett Telfer (Netgate) re-confirmed that the above ranges would be best managed by NZTelecom. Since then, these address ranges are used by APNIC to determine the membership tier paid by NZtelecom as outlined in: http://www.apnic.net/member/feesinfo.html NZTelcom is able to assist any organisation holding address space with reverse DNS and is able to change the status of DB object to public, if so requested. I hope the above information is useful for you. If you need additional information please contact us. If you would prefer to discuss this further, we can arrange a telephone conference. Regards Son ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:39:44 +1000 (EST) From: Anne Lord <anne(a)apnic.net> To: Andy Linton <asjl(a)citylink.co.nz> Cc: son(a)apnic.net Subject: Re: [Fwd: [APNIC #624302] 202.27.0.0/16 and http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/privacy-faq.html (fwd)] hi Andy, Thanks for your email. I'm no longer involved in handling resource requests, but I have copied Son Tran, the manager of the Member Services department, on this email, who is and who will be able to help you. It certainly looks like this warrants a much closer examination of the records and history and I am sure Son would be happy to talk to you. Best wishes, Anne cc: Son On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Andy Linton wrote: > Anne, > > I've had a conversation today with Sid Jones about this mail. These blocks > were allocated to the University of Waikato which operated as the proto NZNIC > in the early nineties prior to APNIC handling this work. > > Aaron Scott who is listed in the changed record below went to work for Telecom > NZ when they took over handling the exchange point at Waikato. There are a > significant number of NZ government departments and other "blue chip" > identities listed in the records who don't use Telecom NZ as their ISP and who > believe that they have portable space. Some of them have /21 allocations and > perhaps even /20 allocations. > > This whole set of blocks really should be considered as swamp space. > > I will be raising this issue on the NZNOG mailing list suggesting that those > entities who have had these blocks allocated to then for periods in the order > of 10 years or more should contact you asking for clarification of their position. > > I think it would be good if APNIC took a good look at the allocations within > these ranges and considered what's going on here. > > Happy to discuss - +64 4 910 5654 > > andy > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:44:30 +1000 > From: gpan via RT <helpdesk(a)apnic.net> > To: sid(a)tsnz.net > Subject: [APNIC #624302] 202.27.0.0/16 and > http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/privacy-faq.html > > > Dear Sid, > > Thank you for your enquiry. It was proposed at the APNIC 16 > meeting in 2003 that customer assignments (and sub-allocation > records) need no longer be publicly accessible via normal > 'whois' queries to the APNIC Whois Database. > > Customer registration records must still be registered within > the APNIC Whois Database, in order to document address > utilisation, however a new 'public' database attribute has been > created to allow these records to be excluded from public whois > query results. This is why you are unable to receive any > result when querying the APNIC Whois Database about this > particular /23. You will get the result as: > > inetnum: 202.27.0.0 - 202.27.255.255 > netname: NZGATE-NZ > descr: NZ Gate National Service Provider > descr: Component of University Of Waikato > descr: New Zeland > country: NZ > admin-c: DBK1-AP > tech-c: KS61-AP > remarks: service provider > notify: dbmon(a)apnic.net > mnt-by: APNIC-HM > mnt-lower: NZTELECOM > changed: ARRON(a)WAIKATO.AC.NZ 19950612 > changed: hostmaster(a)apnic.net 20020208 > changed: hm-change(a)apnic.net 20020621 > status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE > source: APNIC > > Information contained within the historical records outlines that > NZTelecom has full authority over the following blocks: > > 202.27.0.0/16 > 202.36.0.0/16 > 202.37.0.0/16 > 202.49.0.0/16 > 202.50.0.0/16 > 203.96.0.0/17 > > Information from those records also outline that the assignments from > these ranges are non portable. > > 202.27.xx.0/23 > > This address space is from a block allocated, by APNIC to NZTelecom. > This means that all assignments made from this block are non portable. > > If your customer would like to see or change their records in APNIC > whois database, please advise them to contact NZ Telecom. > > Best Regards, > Guangliang > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Guangliang Pan, Internet Resource Analyst <gpan(a)apnic.net> > Asia Pacific Network Information Centre phone: +61 7 3858 3100 > http://www.apnic.net fax: +61 7 3858 3199 > Helpdesk phone: +61 7 3858 3188 > email: helpdesk(a)apnic.net > > Please send Internet Resource Requests to <hostmaster(a)apnic.net> > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > [sid(a)tsnz.net - Wed Oct 20 12:27:02 2004]: > > > Hi > > > > I'm writing to you on behalf of one of my customers XXXXXXX > > as we have something of a dilemma. > > > > I believe the XXXXXX applied for some PI address space from the > > university of waikato sometime in the mid-1990s and were allocated > > 203.27.xx.0/23. > > > > I also believe this space was "swamp" space and not allocated to any > > of the various service providers in New Zealand. > > > > > > They have had this space routed to them via effectively the same > > provider since then. The provider for the past 3 years has been > > TelstraClear NZ Ltd, prior to that it was Telstra NZ Ltd and > > previously Netlink > > > > Can you please clarify who the /23 is allocated to. > > > > Can you please clarify if the customer can still use this space while > > connected to the provider they have had for the past decade. > > > > Further if this is the case how do we get the current records updated > > to reflect this sub-delegation. I'm also curious as to what effect > if > > any this has on other customers I have in 202.27/16 > > > > >

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Exim 4 Book
by Jamie Curtis 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

Hi all, As Richard announced late last week, Philip Hazel, the lead author of Exim, is attending NZNOG to give a full day workshop on the configuration and administration of Exim servers. A few people have indicated that the Exim 4 book (http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book/) is hard to get hold of in NZ and Philip recommends it in addition to the Exim tutorial. I have talked to the publisher of the book, and we can arrange a direct shipment of the books to NZ from the UK for the tutorial. They have offered us the book, including shipping, for slightly less than GBP 30, or about NZ$80. This price comes down to less than NZ$70 as we order more. We can only get these prices if we order suitable quantities, so I need people to indicate to me if they are interested in purchasing the book at the tutorial. If we get enough numbers, I will confirm to all interested the exact price before we place the order. As they have to be shipped to us in time for NZNOG at the start of Feb, we need to know numbers ASAP. Cheers, Jamie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jamie Curtis office: G.1.01 WAND Group, Dept of Computer Science phone: +64 7 838 4136 University of Waikato, mobile: +64 21 392 102 Hamilton, fax: +64 7 858 5095 New Zealand email: jamie(a)wand.net.nz -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Orcon contact me
by Jamie Baddeley 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

can someone from Orcon contact me offlist ASAP please. jamie

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Re: [nznog] NZNOG Tutorials
by Richard Naylor 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

At 08:41 AM 12/17/2004 +1300, Jamie Baddeley wrote: >On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 22:55, Simon Blake wrote: > > He's always keen as mustard for non-royalty-attracting audio, in > > whatever format you've got. If you don't send him something, you got no > > rights to whinge at what he plays. > > >http://creativecommons.org/wired/ > >No whinging from me then! noted - I'll make up a new disk :-) rich

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