June 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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problems with NTP on bigben?
by Simon Blake 03 Mar '05

03 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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Zombies
by Simon Lyall 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

It looks like there are lot of NZ based Zombies sending very large amounts of Spam ( much of it in German) to some ISPs. This has really been going hard over the last hour. I'm seeing adsl accounts at xtra, iprolink and ihug, xtra dialups etc etc. As a related issue, how do people feel about a whitelist RBL of NZ mail servers, It looks like it's not good to just whitelist NZ IPs -- 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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Routing funky-ness to WIX via GGI?
by Matthew Poole 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

A number of people are reporting difficulties accessing the Debian mirror at ftp.citylink. FTPing in from IHUG or Max (and apparently from Xtra, and I'd guess anyone else who transits via GGI) gets the following message: 550- ISP Routing Error 550- 550- Your ISP's access to local New Zealand content is currently 550- broken. Please contact your ISP and advise them that they 550- may well be able to fix this problem for you by peering with 550- the route servers and/or other ISPs at the APE or the WIX. 550- 550- The server you have connected to is not within New Zealand. 550- In order to protect you from prohibitive international 550- traffic charges, you will not be able to access the resources 550- you were looking for, here. 550- 550- We apologise for any inconvenience. 550 Now, we all expect Xtra/Telecom to play nasty games with domestic traffic, but can anyone shed light on why "good" ISPs such as the Hug or Max aren't doing the domestic peering thing? Are we starting to see preemptive peering termination by ISPs who're preparing for the day when the two Ts stop playing the game? On the other side, are we now seeing a trend towards content providers playing a political game to try and reverse the swing away from peering? Obviously Citylink are far more involved at the peering level than nearly any other content provider, but blocking access to content mirrors under the guise of protecting the consumer(when in reality it's protecting the provider) is not a good way to make friends.

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The New Zealand Network Operators' Group
by Donald Neal 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

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 We're now working towards our next annual conference, to be hosted by the WAND group in Hamilton on February 2nd to 4th, 2005. See http://www.nznog.org/ for details of this year's conference, which drew something over 120 participants. 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 around 690 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. 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 ihug Ltd. 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/archives/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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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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RE: [nznog] Routing funky-ness to WIX via GGI?
by Craig Humphrey 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

Newbie alert! We're connected directly to GGI, what are our options (if any) for peering with APE/WIX? Later'ish Craig [don't ask, we have more politics than the Behive...] > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Poole [mailto:matt(a)p00le.net] > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:38 AM > To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: [nznog] Routing funky-ness to WIX via GGI? > > > A number of people are reporting difficulties accessing the > Debian mirror > at ftp.citylink. > > FTPing in from IHUG or Max (and apparently from Xtra, and I'd guess > anyone else who transits via GGI) gets the following message: > 550- ISP Routing Error > 550- > 550- Your ISP's access to local New Zealand content is currently > 550- broken. Please contact your ISP and advise them that they > 550- may well be able to fix this problem for you by peering with > 550- the route servers and/or other ISPs at the APE or the WIX. > 550- > 550- The server you have connected to is not within New Zealand. > 550- In order to protect you from prohibitive international > 550- traffic charges, you will not be able to access the resources > 550- you were looking for, here. > 550- > 550- We apologise for any inconvenience. > 550 > > Now, we all expect Xtra/Telecom to play nasty games with > domestic traffic, > but can anyone shed light on why "good" ISPs such as the Hug > or Max aren't > doing the domestic peering thing? Are we starting to see preemptive > peering termination by ISPs who're preparing for the day when > the two Ts > stop playing the game? > > On the other side, are we now seeing a trend towards content providers > playing a political game to try and reverse the swing away > from peering? > Obviously Citylink are far more involved at the peering level > than nearly > any other content provider, but blocking access to content > mirrors under > the guise of protecting the consumer(when in reality it's > protecting the > provider) is not a good way to make friends. > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog >

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Re: RE: [nznog] Routing funky-ness to WIX via GGI?
by Jonny Martin 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

I would have thought that taking users to the content is a far better approach in this instance. Mirroring the content at APE serves only to strengthen the Auckland-centric nature of the NZ internet. Cheers, Jonny. > > Well what about hosting a mirror in APE? If anyone could provide the > > space in Sky tower I have a spare box which could be used for an APE > > mirror and I don't mind maintaining it. Still getting the data from WIX > > to APE would incur a cost somewhere and seeing as my Orcon link also > > seems to route international, this isn't a possibility. > > > > I've asked the Same as well.. >

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Re: [nznog] Routing funky-ness to WIX via GGI?
by Ewen McNeill 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

In message <Pine.LNX.4.56.0406301004510.32463(a)babylon.blakjak.net>, Matthew Poole writes: >On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Matthew Poole wrote: >Which is doubly frustrating, since it means that nobody who wants anything >faster than a 128k connection in the vast majority of the country has any >chance to use peered traffic - Cable=Paradise=TelstraClear, and >Jetstream fullrate or Jetstream Surf=Telecom. FWIW, it is possible to reach the (WIX-based) ftp.citylink.co.nz server from Paradise/TelstraClear cable: -=- cut here -=- ewen(a)basilica:~ $ ftp ftp.citylink.co.nz Connected to ftp.citylink.co.nz. 220 (vsFTPd 1.2.1) Name (ftp.citylink.co.nz:ewen): anonymous 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 150 Here comes the directory listing. -rw-r--r-- 1 1004 1004 53894917 Jun 15 2003 OOo_1.0.3.1_Win32Intel_install.zip lrwxrwxrwx 1 1004 1004 7 May 26 09:44 OpenBSD -> openbsd drwxr-xr-x 12 1004 1004 1032 Jun 29 11:19 backports drwxr-xr-x 9 1004 1004 512 Jun 28 19:33 debian drwxr-xr-x 6 1004 1004 264 Nov 20 2003 debian-non-US drwxr-xr-x 5 1004 1004 192 Jun 29 16:02 debian-security [....] -=- cut here -=- So if you do have a choice between Paradise/TelstraClear cable and Jetstream and reaching the Citylink FTP server is important to you, you may wish to take that into account. Providers of high volume free content (such as the Citylink FTP server) are left in a somewhat difficult position -- either they do something like this (ie offer it on WIX for anyone who can reach WIX), or they somehow try to find enough money to pay for big enough links to reach everyone, or they just give up and don't offer anything at all. Given how popular ftp.citylink.co.nz probably is, and how much traffic that likely involves, I doubt that (after paying for all the mirroring costs, admin time, etc) Citylink's generosity can extend to paying for "domestic transit" links to all the people who might want to use it. Offering it free on WIX to anyone that can reach it seems like the next best thing to me. The "the content is here, come and get it" incentive is just an added bonus over the link cost savings. And I for one am pleased they chose to continue offering the FTP site even if access is not as NZ wide as it was before. Downloading at 2Mbps (Paradise cable) or 100Mbps (WIX) sure beats slower international downloads. Ewen

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Re: [nznog] Routing funky-ness to WIX via GGI?
by Liz Q 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

> Well what about hosting a mirror in APE? If anyone could provide the > space in Sky tower I have a spare box which could be used for an APE > mirror and I don't mind maintaining it. Still getting the data from WIX > to APE would incur a cost somewhere and seeing as my Orcon link also > seems to route international, this isn't a possibility. > > Barry I have a box already at orcon doing mirror of a fair few things already - i have the drive space for more easily Liz

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