December 2006 - NZNOG - lists.nznog.org

Outside broadcast of broadband march on Parliament
by Andy Linton 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Richard has asked me to post this - mail him if you think it's off topic! http://www.r2.co.nz/meta/videonow.asx

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APNIC fee structure
by Elly Tawhai 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi, The APNIC fee structure is currently under review. As the fee structure is determined by the membership, we would like to encourage the NZNOG community to share their thoughts on our mailing list: wg-apnic-fees(a)apnic.net We would like to acknowledge the valuable contribution Andy has already made to the APNIC fee discussion mailing list. We are aware that the topic has recently been raised on the NZNOG mailing list, and we urge any interested parties to also provide input to the APNIC discussion. Contributing to the APNIC fees mailing list will enable you to participate in the official fee structure policy review process. We look forward to hearing from the NZNOG community. Regards, Elly APNIC

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Notification of NZRR Database changes
by NZRR Database Notifications 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Dear Colleague, This is to notify you that some object(s) in NZRR database which you either maintain or are listed as to-be-notified have been added, deleted or changed. These objects are used to configure the various NZIX route servers (http://nzix.net/) so you can expect the relevant servers to be reloaded in the near future. The reloading of the servers is staggered over a period of time so that if you are peering with both servers at an exchange, you can maintain at least one BGP session at all times and consequently a full set of routes. --- PREVIOUS OBJECT: route-set: AS9439:RS-ROUTES:AS23754 descr: Route set advertised to AS9439 by Cafenet-Free - AS23754 members: 198.48.3.192/26^26-29 admin-c: RPA1-NZRR tech-c: RPA1-NZRR notify: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net notify: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz notify: noc(a)citylink.co.nz mnt-by: MAINT-NZRR-NZ changed: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net 20061122 source: NZRR REPLACED BY: route-set: AS9439:RS-ROUTES:AS23754 descr: advertised to AS9439 by CityLink - AS23754 members: 198.48.0.0/22^22-29, 202.8.44.0/22^22-29, 202.7.6.0/23^23-29, 97.64.46.0/24^24-29, 198.32.71.0/24^24-29, 202.7.5.0/24^24-29, 203.118.144.0/24^24-29 admin-c: RPA1-NZRR tech-c: RPA1-NZRR notify: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net notify: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz notify: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net mnt-by: MAINT-NZRR-NZ changed: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net 20061214 source: NZRR

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Vodafone Issues
by Ernest Cunningham 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi all, If somebody from Vodafones mac savy tech department could contact me off list I need some help with an issue I am having with my MacBook Pro + HSDPA Express Card (connections are fine, it is a more technical issue I have to do with unexplained network activity). Ernest Cunningham

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XTRA mail servers
by Tom 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

on 7/12/2006 2:10 PM Simon wrote: > We are having some major issues over the past week when forwarding > mail to xtra. Mainly: > > - delivery temporarily suspended: connect to mta.xtra.co.nz > - connect to mta.xtra.co.nz[210.54.141.1]: server dropped connection > without sending the initial SMTP greeting > > Has anyone seen any of these issues and knows anything about them? I've been seeing similar issues, such as 2006-12-07 14:13:36 1Gs4Fp-0000gi-Vv SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: host mta.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.1]: 421 Service not available 2006-12-07 14:13:36 1Gs4Fq-0000hO-Ut mta.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.1] Connection refused 2006-12-07 12:03:52 1Gs4YH-0002YT-Qz mx1.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.1] Connection reset by peer 2006-12-07 12:34:26 1Gs4Ll-00049D-Hg Remote host mx1.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.1] closed connection in response to initial connection same issues, mail isn't getting delivered until a force mail queue run is done, clients are moaning...as usual :( tom

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APNIC member survey: Still open for participation
by Elly Tawhai 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Apologies for duplicate postings -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [apnic-talk] [Apnic-announce] APNIC Member Survey Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:00:02 +1000 From: dg(a)apnic.net Reply-To: apnic-talk(a)apnic.net To: apnic-announce(a)apnic.net Dear APNIC members and friends, As you may know, since 1999 the APNIC Executive Council has commissioned a regular survey of the APNIC community. Three surveys have been held so far, providing crucial input on APNIC's performance, development and future direction. Today we are pleased to announce the fourth survey of APNIC members and stakeholders. As in the past, this survey will be conducted independently from the APNIC secretariat, by the international firm KPMG. In this manner the process is assured to be neutral and objective, ensuring the highest quality result. Once again Dr John Earls of KPMG has developed the survey format and questions, with input from a large group of selected validators from the APNIC community. Dr Earls will receive and process all survey responses, and will guarantee the anonymity of all respondents. His report will be presented at the APNIC Annual Members Meeting in March 2007. We hope that you will participate in this important exercise, whether or not you are an APNIC member, or have participated in a previous APNIC survey. To express our appreciation for your time and effort, APNIC will provide a special reward to 3 randomly picked respondents. This reward, an APNIC meeting fellowship package, will include complimentary meeting registration plus USD $500.00 towards expenses, and can be used at either of the APNIC Open Policy Meetings in 2007. To participate in the survey, please visit the APNIC website and follow the instructions at: http://www.apnic.net/survey/2007 With sincere thanks in advance for your assistance, Paul Wilson Director General Akinori Maemura Chair, Executive Council. ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Wilson email: pwilson(a)apnic.net Director General, APNIC sip: apnic(a)voip.apnic.net http://www.apnic.net phone: +61 7 3858 3100 ________________________________________________________________________

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IPv4 Exhaustion
by Philip D'Ath 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

I attended a very interesting presentation today by Tony Bain, one of the key IETF IPv6 chairs. He says that the rate of /8's being allocated is increasing exponentially at that moment (22 were allocated in 18 months [till July 2005], leaving just 64 available worldwide), and the prior estimate of when IPv4 address was going to be exhausted of 2020 has been revised to 2009 - as in three years away, and that IPv4 address space is likely to take on a much more commercially tradable value as it becomes very rare (like oil). For existing players in the market this doesn't mean much. However for expanding networks this is going to put a serious crimp in their plans. I polled a lot of players in the NZ market about 6 months ago and plans for IPv6 deployment were almost non-existent. There is an older article he wrote here: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_8-3/ipv4. html We really need large commercial transit players like Global Gateway, TelstraClear, AT&T, UUNet, AsiaNetCom, and Sprint to start offering dual stack IPv6 connections to downstream ISPs, and for ISPs to start allowing clients to connection via IPv6, including via DSL. We really need to get critical infrastructure, like DNS, fully IPv6 enabled. The .nz domain isn't even reachable via IPv6 addresses yet. Now I know the shared registry system has IPv6 support now, but it is limiting in that you must still supply IPv4 addresses. You can't supply only IPv6 glue records. What happens when you can't get IPv4 addresses to use for glue? Also the majority of the registries out their offer very poor IPv6 support - as in no IPv6 connected DNS servers, and an inability to easily add IPv6 AAAA records.

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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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NO contact list
by Gerard Creamer 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

There now appear to be two versions of this list. http://www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz/content/view/49/40/ and http://www.usenet.net.nz/noc/index.html We have recently been assigned a public AS and I thought we should probably go on the list - as we're growing our things breaking will have a wider impact and other NOs might want to get hold of us. I have no issue with being woken up in the middle of the night when our things break. I have a strong objection to being woken up when someone elses things break. Personally I like the (mostly) unlinked anonymity of the list at usenet.net.nz, as it's less likely to be some kid who has no idea what an AS is calling at 2am because the gaming server they're using in suddenly unreachable (probably due to some reason other than our network being broken). Sure, the kid might ultimately pay my wages, but they're sure as hell not my customer... I emailed Simon Lyall yesterday to ask to go on the list at usenet.net.nz - is this still going to be considered the NO list? I know there's no king and all that jazz, but some direction for a newbie AS NO would be appreciated... For the record, here's our guff: Name Netspace Services Limited Domains netspace.net.nz ASN(s) 9733 Phone Number(s) +64 4 917 8098, 0800 NETSPACE (0800 638 772) Clueful People Gerard Creamer Direct Email noc(a)netspace.net.nz Hours Office Thanks, Gerard

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XTRA mail servers
by Simon 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Hi There :) We are having some major issues over the past week when forwarding mail to xtra. Mainly: - delivery temporarily suspended: connect to mta.xtra.co.nz - connect to mta.xtra.co.nz[210.54.141.1]: server dropped connection without sending the initial SMTP greeting Has anyone seen any of these issues and knows anything about them? I just trying to contact XTRA's administrators, but no response. I have had a good response back from the corporate side of XTRA, which is assuring. Regards and Thanks, Simon

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