March 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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OT - Reply from Cunliffe
by Ian Cousins 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Anyone else get this type of reply from Cunliffe's office recently?... as if I'm going to open an attachment in an email with the subject header "Attached image data". I'm assuming its a reply of some sort to the "Better broadband" letter I sent them. Ian Cousins, Wellington -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Attached image data. Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:16:03 +1200 From: Sandra Wilson <Sandra.Wilson(a)parliament.govt.nz> To: lyncus(a)ihug.co.nz Sandra Wilson Ministerial Secretary Hon David Cunliffe Phone: 04 470 6667 Fax: 04 471 2360 Email: Sandra.Wilson(a)parliament.govt.nz ----- Forwarded by Sandra Wilson/minserv on 31/03/2006 10:15 am ----- GoschePhotocopier(a)minist ers.govt.nz To: SANDRA.WILSON(a)PARLIAMENT.GOVT.NZ cc: 31/03/2006 10:21 am Fax to: Subject: Attached image data. This is image data from the scanner.(See attached file: Scan24.pdf) No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release Date: 30/03/2006

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Re: [nznog] OT - Reply from Cunliffe
by Phonenet 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

This doesn't appear to have gone out properly first time so here it is again... > Mark Foster wrote: > >Its a PDF. Theyre generally safe, arent they? > I know its a pdf but it was the manner in which it was sent that got to me - no real header/subject and everyone knows NOT to open attachments sent from unknown persons that you aren't expecting.... and as for this reply from Justin Cook: > Looks like your standard network scanner/photocopier email. I don't > think it's in response to anything, although it could always be a > virus pretending to be a photocopier. > > If you wrote them a physical letter then it seems likely it was > scanned and was meant to be sent to the MP in question but someone > sent it to you instead. Go on, open it! :D > > > *Justin Cook* > Developer > http://www.skull.co.nz/ > I wonder if we really want our systems developed by someone with this sort of appraoch..... BTW it wasn't a physical letter I sent - the "Better Broadband" leeter was a form ;letter that I rewrote to cover the points I wanted to make as an individual and as a business owner. Ian

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NZCERT-discuss mailing list.
by Brendan Murray 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Last time I steal your bandwidth for this. NZCERT-discuss A mailing list to discuss the establishment of an NZ CERT ========================================================= The issue of creating an NZ Computer Emergency Response Team has been around for years. There are a bunch of ways that it can be done, a lot of people that can be involved and ultimately a lot of dollars required to make it work. We raised the idea on behalf of the InternetNZ NZCERT task force on the NZNOG and InternetNZ members-discuss lists last year. There was some support for the idea, as well as some suggestions for the creation of a local nsp-discuss like mailing list. While the nsp idea is a good one, it doesn't address the issue of a NZ based Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) In the recent MED discussion paper "A Strategic Consideration of ICT Security and Confidence in New Zealand" on page 33 they state: "1.Areas for further work would appear to include the following: - Reviewing the need for the establishment of a national computer emergency response team (CERT) and a mechanism for anonymous reporting of security incidents;" InternetNZ has created a NZCERT-discuss mailing list as one step in the process of evaluating the need and way forward for a NZ based CERT. A separate mailing list was created to allow those that were interested to take part, and to stop using the bandwidth of the NZNOG, members-discuss and other lists. You are invited to join the NZCERT-discuss list by sending email to NZCERT-discuss-subscribe(a)internetnz.net.nz -- Brendan Murray brendan(a)wolfhoundsecurity.com The Observation Post www.wolfhoundsecurity.com 14 Centre Road Phone: +64-3-4543282 RD 2 Ocean Grove Fax: +64-3-4543285 Dunedin, New Zealand Mobile: +64-21-1153290

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NZNOG06 redux
by Simon Blake 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

A few thoughts on the future of NZNOG that came to me after the meeting closed on Friday. There is no direct operational content here. First up, a big thank you to everybody who participated, the sponsers and speakers, the many volunteers, and especially Lin, Peter, Mark, Joe and Donald for organising an excellent show. With my sponsers hat on, I can say that I think it was money well spent, even with Jonny hogging the limelight :-). 1) where were the small Wellington ISP's? GlobeNet, Actrix, DTS, Xtreme, LinuxNet, NZWireless - did you have staff there? If not, why not? What would make you come along next time? 2) the content I made the comment at the time that I wouldn't want to see more vendor content. I realised afterwards that that wasn't strictly fair - we're all vendors in one way or another, and some of the vendor presentations were amongst the most interesting at the conference. I think what I was driving at was "I don't want to watch vendors present regurgitations of the whitepapers on their website", rather than "vendors are evil, get behind me Satan". This conference will remain relevant if you get information in it that you can't get anywhere else. 3) "is it technical enough?" People who have interesting things to say or viewpoints to push (think Paul Vixie and Geoff Huston in previous years, and Hamish Macewan this year) are often the folks who leave a lasting impression, regardless of their technical merit (or more often, lack thereof). Conversely, it'd be a sorry conference if the occasional paper didn't sneak in that needed more than high school math to understand - it's always good to have a few papers that make you go "Huh? WTF is s/he talking about?". So I'd like to make a case for "papers from people who know and care about what they're talking about, regardless of whether they are technical or not". Having said that, I wouldn't want the conference to be any less technical, since the easiest way of meeting the above criteria is to have reasonably technical presentations. 4) should we have a sysadmin stream? If you want to run an SA stream to get more punters through the door, then don't bother, it feels about the right size now. So a stream that was concerned with Oracle DBA'ing, or virus scanning on desktop machines, and which was clearly aimed at a different target user group than the current attendees seems a little pointless. Of course, it is naive to suggest that system administration and network operations are somehow foreign to each other - most of us do elements of both. So if there was a stream that was "system administration for network operators" that could attract some interesting papers on (for eg) nagios, or snmp daemons, or LDAP, or cool radius hacks, or asterisk, or spam handling, or similar then I think I'd be all for it. 5) should we align with another conference/body? If it makes it easier to run the gig by getting some support from the likes of InternetNZ, then I'd be calm with that, it'd be a shame to see this fail because of the burden on volunteers. However, this is now clearly a successful and vibrant conference in its own right - I'm not sure that running the conference in conjunction with something like Govis would achieve anything positive. 6) should we publish proceedings? Seems like a good idea if you want students/academics to participate (something I think we should encourage), but it's yet another job for a volunteer, to apply for the ISSN number, and put such a document together. Cheers Si

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(Fwd) Re: ICANN Wellington
by Nick Wallingford 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Sorry - I did follow up with a posting that got rejected and I'd left office by then. It does need Real Player or equivalent, as the audio/video is coming straight from ICANN, their encoding, their format... Nick On 29 Mar 2006 at 8:45, Juha Saarinen wrote: > Nick Wallingford wrote: > > There's a page with an IRC channel and the streaming audio/video of > > the events in the Illot Theatre, where some of the activities of the > > ICANN conference are happening. > > Hmm... need more coffee, or a bigger font. Read that as "... the events > in the Idiot Theatre". > > > I'm hoping that the channel will be monitored through today's > > sessions to take remote questions. > > > > http://www.icann.org.nz/irc.htm > > Needs RealPlayer? > > -- > Juha ------- End of forwarded message -------

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ICANN Wellington
by Nick Wallingford 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

There's a page with an IRC channel and the streaming audio/video of the events in the Illot Theatre, where some of the activities of the ICANN conference are happening. I'm hoping that the channel will be monitored through today's sessions to take remote questions. http://www.icann.org.nz/irc.htm Nick Wallingford

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.nz Whois Unavailable
by David Zanetti 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Announcing on behalf NZRS: Due to a failure in one of the SRS sites, whois.srs.net.nz had to be switched from one site to another. While DNS propogates, you may find problems talking to whois.srs.net.nz. Some registrar sites may be okay, depending on exactly how they query whois (XML or using a name other than whois.srs.net.nz). Should be all resolved in a few hours (since that's the TTL :) ) -- David Zanetti <david.zanetti(a)catalyst.net.nz> Team Leader, Systems Administration Catalyst IT Limited +64-4-8032233 +64-21-402260

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