March 2004 - NZNOG - lists.nznog.org

Registry scam from DRoA
by Gavin Palmer 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

Hiya All Thought I would give a heads up about that Domain Registry of America registration scam that's been going around for a while, I received a "Domain Name Expiration Notice" this morning about a .com domain we don't own asking for renewal and giving the option to register a .net and .org. I'm sure you are all already aware of the scam but I hadn't actually seen an example locally, till now. They might start doing the rounds...? Cheers Gav

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RE: [nznog] Has the physical infrastructure for the "advancednetwork"been built?
by Regan Murphy 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

> From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha(a)saarinen.org] > > Dan Clark wrote: > > > Hey Guys, > > I think this is Cisco's official word on it, kinda > exciting stuff > > really... > > > http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/global/asiapac/news/2003/pr_12-30.html > > That's just a campus network, isn't it? The Herald article > talks about linking the various NZ unis together with a > gigabit network. I assume Internet2 is the advanced network they are talking about hooking in to on an international level. You can read all about Internet2 here http://www.internet2.edu/ Infrastructure-wise I would expect there to be fibre to a number of universities and other institutions so technically it should be achievable. I guess renting some fibres would be where the "tens of millions of dollars" comes in and it would be an ongoing cost... -- Regan

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Dell PowerConnect 3324/3348 switches.
by Simon Lyall 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Has anyone has had some good/bad experiences with these, especially compared to Cisco 2950 and similar? Most of the reviews seem fairly positive [1] , I'm looking at simply running a few boxes on 100Mb/s with a trunk or two, nothing fancy (though if you've played around with the cute features I'd be interested). The price seems pretty good. Email me direct and I can summarize if people want. [1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/24/42TCdell_1.html -- Simon J. Lyall. | Very Busy | Mail: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.

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Non University Capture Point
by Perry Lorier 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

The WAND group is a network research group within the University of Waikato. Our research interests include simulation and measurement of computer networks. As part of our research we are working on building more up to date models of various traffic patterns, however we are hampered because our current capture points do not cover some of the more interesting traffic types. In particular we're interested in packet traces of peer to peer traffic and gaming traffic for creating simulation models. Unfortunately for us P2P and gaming traffic on the Waikato University campus are actively "discouraged". We are also interested in how traffic in the "Real World" compares to traffic we see within a university network. WAND are interested in partnering with a New Zealand ISP to do analysis of their network. WAND can provide the hardware and the support to perform the traces, and can provide analysis of the captured traffic. If you are interested, please reply to me off list. -- Perry Lorier Research Programmer / WAND Network Research Group / Waikato University

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RE: [nznog] airnote.co.nz dead and burried ?
by Will Steele 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

the emails still going there are probably on spammers lists.... 97% of it will probably be spam... and who really wants spam going to their cellphones? :) >From: Simon Byrnand <simon(a)igrin.co.nz> >To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz >Subject: [nznog] airnote.co.nz dead and burried ? >Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:35:37 +1300 > >Hi All, > >Does anyone know what the story is with the email domain airnote.co.nz ? > >I seem to remember that a few years ago it was a domain run by Telecom that >you could register for an email address for your 025 mobile and it would >forward email to your mobile. > >However for at least the last year (perhaps more) the designated mail >exchanger (which seems to be overseas) has refused connections, thus >causing any message to that domain to be retried for 5 days and then time >out. Trying to go to www.airnote.co.nz now redirects you to some other >Telecom page about "Yabba". (What does THAT have to do with the old airnote >site ? :) > >Anyone else notice stuff for this domain retrying in their outgoing queue >all the time ? It was a fairly well known and used domain at one point... > >If email for that domain really is dead and burried, perhaps someone in >charge of it might think to change the records so that everyones >mailservers don't waste 5 days trying to deliver messages there all the >time....(and yes we get quite a few messages addressed @airnote.co.nz even >now, don't ask me why :) > >Regards, >Simon Byrnand >iGRIN Internet > >_______________________________________________ >NZNOG mailing list >NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz >http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog _________________________________________________________________ Watch movie trailers online with the Xtra Broadband Channel http://xtra.co.nz/broadband

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airnote.co.nz dead and burried ?
by Simon Byrnand 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Hi All, Does anyone know what the story is with the email domain airnote.co.nz ? I seem to remember that a few years ago it was a domain run by Telecom that you could register for an email address for your 025 mobile and it would forward email to your mobile. However for at least the last year (perhaps more) the designated mail exchanger (which seems to be overseas) has refused connections, thus causing any message to that domain to be retried for 5 days and then time out. Trying to go to www.airnote.co.nz now redirects you to some other Telecom page about "Yabba". (What does THAT have to do with the old airnote site ? :) Anyone else notice stuff for this domain retrying in their outgoing queue all the time ? It was a fairly well known and used domain at one point... If email for that domain really is dead and burried, perhaps someone in charge of it might think to change the records so that everyones mailservers don't waste 5 days trying to deliver messages there all the time....(and yes we get quite a few messages addressed @airnote.co.nz even now, don't ask me why :) Regards, Simon Byrnand iGRIN Internet

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Organising the Next NZNOG Conference
by Donald Neal 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

People, As discussed at the conference, a committee is being called into existence to ensure that the next NZNOG conference happens. Unless I hear back from anyone else RSN, that committee will consist of: Joe Abley Jamie Curtis Neil Fenemor Daniel Griggs Peter Komisarczuk Simon Lyall Tony McGregor Lin Nah Nathan Ward Donald Neal | "Fiasco - an unsuccessful Technical Specialist | wall painting." Operations Engineering | Integration & Services Divn. | - Sandi Toksvig Alcatel NZ Ltd | All opinions mine only. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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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NZ BBS Community
by Nick MacKechnie (thenet) 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

At a risk of being flamed... Any of you old timers who are interested - http://www.thenet.gen.nz/bbs Appologies for the spam... Nick

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Orcon Internet Prefix List Update (2004-03-10)
by Craig Whitmore 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

For all those peering with Orcon Internet (AS17746) nationally, please update your prefix lists with the following networks (also in attached file). Added: ip prefix-list orcon-national permit 202.127.8.0/22 le 24 ip prefix-list orcon-national permit 203.97.44.0/24 ip prefix-list orcon-national permit 203.97.66.0/24 ip prefix-list orcon-national permit 218.101.56.0/24 Thanks Craig Whitmore Systems Administrator Orcon Internet http://www.orcon.net.nz

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Checkpoint Software
by Tim John - Domainz 07 Mar '04

07 Mar '04

Hi all, We currently have a number of firewalls that use CheckPoint version 4.1. I'm trying to do some stuff on them that requires version 4.12. Unfortunately, this isn't available for download anymore (from CheckPoint) and although the firewalls were under maintenance a few years ago (when version 4.12 was released), we are unable to obtain it now. The latest version 'NG' is available for plenty of $$$$ !! Has anyone got a copy archived away someplace, or can someone point me to location where it can be downloaded ? Thanks in advance ... Tim

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