October 2006 - NZNOG - lists.nznog.org

list.waikato.ac.nz Has Moved
by Donald Neal 11 Dec '24

11 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 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

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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Moving DNS providers - best practice.
by Simon Lyall 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

After a few recent instances I am getting sick of companies who transfer their DNS/Servers from one provider to another and then wonder why the old data is still cached by 3rd parties for 24 hours (or whatever). How do people feel about a "best practice" document on this that we could encourage people to follow ( perhaps the DNC could publish) for people moving their domain between providers. Just the basics like, dropping the TTLs, getting all the servers data in the right order etc? Similar to this: http://www.onr.com/services/data_center/colocation/transfer_tips.html Thoguhts? -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.

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Notice of maintenance work on ns2.dns.net.nz
by DNS 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Please note we will be doing some maintenance work on the machine that serves ns2.dns.net.nz between 19:00 and 21:00 on Monday the 30th of October. During this time ns2.dns.net.nz may not be available. Throughout this period the other six .nz zone servers (ns1,3,4,5,6,7) will be available. Please contact me if you have any questions. Dave Baker .nz Registry Services support(a)nzrs.net.nz

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[Sort of OT] NZ FreeBSD mirror needed
by Juha Saarinen 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Hello my beery little friends, Dan Langille wrote on the NZFUG list: "Hi folks, The computer running http://www.nz.freebsd.org/ is dying. The www mirror needs a new home. Any volunteers? I think this port does that for you: http://www.freshports.org/net/cvsup-mirror/ The NZ website is not a high volume website... It's just good to have the thing up and running." And I thought maybe a NZ ISP might be able to assist here. A cvsup and ftp mirror would be good too, if possible. Details on mirroring here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html And Andrew Thompson @ FreeBSD says there's a prebuilt system available if anyone wants to host it, or ISPs are welcome to use their own. Off list replies please. -- Juha Saarinen www.geekzone.co.nz/juha | Skype: juha_saarinen blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/techsploder www.computerworld.co.nz | MSN: juha_saarinen(a)msn.com Subtle recursive jokes in .sigs are not funny.

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Re: [nznog] [Fwd: Re: NZNOG '06 videos]
by Richard Naylor 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

>On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:29 +1300, Jeremy Naylor wrote: >>Hey guys, >>Just a quick note to let you know that the videos for the talks at NZNOG >>'06 are now available. >>Sorry for the delay with them. >>They're at: http://www.r2.co.nz/20060323 > >Is there any easy way to download them without resorting to using >mplayer -dumpstream? If theres enough interest or demand, I put a copy onto an HTTP server. See if theres interest on nznog. Rich

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Fwd: The Postel Network Operator's Scholarship
by Joe Abley 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Begin forwarded message: > From: Joe Abley <jabley(a)ca.afilias.info> > Date: 13 October 2006 10:30:13 EDT (CA) > To: nanog-announce(a)nanog.org > Subject: The Postel Network Operator's Scholarship > > The Internet Society (ISOC) a 501c(3) corporation (http:// > www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/incorp.shtml), has agreed to > accept a restricted donation from an anonymous source to be known as > the "Postel Network Operator's Scholarship." > > The Scholarship will be awarded annually to a recipient selected by a > "Selection Committee" consisting of a representative of the then > serving Board of ARIN (The American Registry of Internet Numbers - > http://www.arin.net) and a representative of the then serving > Steering Committee of NANOG (The North American Network Operator's > Group - http://www.nanog.org). > > The award is intended to enable a deserving network operator who > would not otherwise be able to attend the Joint Meeting to do so, and > whose attendance at the Joint Meeting will continue to build on the > legacy of Jon's lifetime contribution to the Internet. > > The Selection Committee will develop an open and public application > process, and will "whimsically" select the annual recipient > exclusively in response to the question: "What Would Jon Do?" if he > were asked to select a recipient. There are no criteria or > restrictions or other requirements, including but not limited to > nationality, location, age, or gender. > > The scholarship will cover the costs of travel from the recipient's > home city to the Joint Meeting. It will also cover the costs of > Hotel accommodation at the Conference Hotel. It will include a daily > stipend for food, beverages, and incidentals. It is expected that > the attendence fee for the meetings will be waived by ARIN and NANOG. > > The membership of the Selection Committee shall not be changed except > in the event that the membership of either the Board (in the case of > ARIN) or the Steering Committee (in the case of NANOG) ceases to be > based on the popular vote of the community each serve; in which case > the member whose process changes will be replaced by a similar body > that is based on the popular vote of the community that was served by > the ineligible member, and which will be appointed at the sole > discretion of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, and > under the same terms as the initial Selection Committee. > > At its option, the Internet Society may increase or decrease the > number of recipients each year based on the current state of the > Scholarship Fund, and the variable costs of travel and accommodation. >

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Re: [nznog] Moving DNS providers - best practice.
by Peter Mott 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

On 27/10/2006, at 3:23 PM, Mark Foster wrote: > Ask them do a whois on the domain, and then point out that if they are > carrying Authoritive NS records for a domain which the rootservers are > pointing elsewhere - whois tells you this - they are breaking the DNS. One could also encourage folks to use different name servers for caching and not allow recursion on their authoritative servers. That way if they claim to be authoritative and they are no longer, nobody cares. I seem to remember having a discussion about this very thing with a large provider about 6 years ago and they were not interested in any form of co-operation that would prevent client internet experience being broken when a change of delegation took place. They didn't have the capacity to understand the problem let alone a resolve to solve it. I wonder if anything has changed :-) regards Peter Mott -/-

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Re: [nznog] Moving DNS providers - best practice.
by Mark Foster 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Peter Mott wrote: > On 27/10/2006, at 3:23 PM, Mark Foster wrote: > >> Ask them do a whois on the domain, and then point out that if they are >> carrying Authoritive NS records for a domain which the rootservers are >> pointing elsewhere - whois tells you this - they are breaking the DNS. > > One could also encourage folks to use different name servers for caching and > not allow recursion on their authoritative servers. That way if they claim > to be authoritative and they are no longer, nobody cares. > > I seem to remember having a discussion about this very thing with a large > provider about 6 years ago and they were not interested in any form of > co-operation that would prevent client internet experience being broken when > a change of delegation took place. They didn't have the capacity to > understand the problem let alone a resolve to solve it. I wonder if anything > has changed :-) Actually a possible 'reason' for this just occurred to me. If you're buying a DNS hosting service from an ISP, does the ISP have the right to cancel said hosting service without authority from the customer? This, I believe, has been a cited reason _not_ to remove legacy DNS (despite what the registry says) for at least one provider i've heard of before now. It makes the issue one of customer-provider liason - and one of monetary/commercial significance - instead of dns/operational significance. I favour the latter. But there may be a valid point here... Mark.

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