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Re: [nznog] Temporary fibre cable across Wanganui river near Harihari - anybody got photos?
by Richard Naylor 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

At 11:38 a.m. 3/01/2013, Sam Russell wrote: >I'm sure this looks hilarious, does anyone have pictures of their >thrown fibre? You live a sheltered life and have been denied the goods things.. A good lineman will put a throw line between the two wires you ask for at the top of a pole with great ease. These days a cherry picker seems to be the answer to everything high up. My old throw line finally broke and split. Come to NZNOG-13 and buy me a beer and I'll tell you how it was made. These days I'm a little more elegant and carry a bow and arrow, with fishing line, but its really not as good as a throw line and only really good at blasting through trees. In the old days (before helicopters were cheap to hire), power boards got cables across rivers, gullys and valleys etc using rockets with a draw line. Of course, the drawline was sometimes forgotten, completely by accident, of course. In much the same way it was strange how the 11kV earth sticks kept falling into streams and rivers that had fish in them. Very strange. While a good linesman was amazing, us mere mortals caused much hilarity and rolling around laughing by the gang. Working life used to be so much fun - actually it still is. Leave the office for a day or two and experience Layer 0 engineering..

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Microsoft Office 365 Routing Issues with Telecom/Xtra/Global Gateway?
by Regan Murphy 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Going to get my clients to attempt to log this with Telecom, but it sounds like a widespread problem developing.... http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=86&topicid=113151 -- Regan

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alcatel.co.nz domain
by Simon Lyall 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

This domain seems to be expiring... Just noticed cause a bunch of people are subscribed to this mailing list using it. -- Simon 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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Re: [nznog] alcatel.co.nz domain
by Peter Lambrechtsen 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

I've forwarded this onto a number of friends & colleagues of mine in ALU. Hopefully one of them will find someone who can sort it... Sent from my HTC Wildfire S on Telecom's XT mobile network. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Simon Lyall" <simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz> To: "nznog" <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: [nznog] alcatel.co.nz domain Date: Tue, Jan 8, 2013 9:54 am This domain seems to be expiring... Just noticed cause a bunch of people are subscribed to this mailing list using it. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

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Authoritative DNS config
by Richard Hector 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

This isn't an NZ specific question, and also perhaps a bit basic; hope that's ok. Packaged (debian, ubuntu anyway) versions of BIND come with various default zones configured - localhost, broadcast and root hints. Are any of these actually necessary for an authoritative-only name server? It seems to me they're mostly/only useful for short-circuiting simple/standard queries on a resolver. Is that right? Not having any other zones than my own in my config would make it somewhat easier to configure views. Thanks, Richard

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Temporary fibre cable across Wanganui river near Harihari - anybody got photos?
by Sam Russell 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

I'm sure this looks hilarious, does anyone have pictures of their thrown fibre? Also beer -- Sam Russell Network Engineer Research & Education Advanced Network NZ Ltd ddi: +64 4 913 6365 mob: +64 21 750 819 fax: +64 4 916 0064 http://www.reannz.co.nz

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Fwd: NZIX OpenFlow adventures phase 2
by Dean Pemberton 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Dean Pemberton* Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 Subject: NZIX OpenFlow adventures phase 2 To: Truman Boyes <truman(a)suspicious.org> Cc: nznog <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Nox at the moment. Happy to have a chat about different controllers if you've got a preference. Dean On Tuesday, January 1, 2013, Truman Boyes wrote: > Hey Dean, > > What are you using for the OFP controller? NOX/POX/Big Switch? > > Cheers, > Truman > > > On 18 Dec, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Dean Pemberton wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > So the OpenFlow router has been up for a wee white now so it seemed > > about time to let you all poke at it. > > Phase 2 of the project is to: > > Deploy an OF switch on an exchange point which can function as a route > server. > > This switch should be able to BGP peer with any peers which currently > > use the exchange and allow for the exchange of IPv4 prefixes as > > required. > > > > I've used the information on the WIX Peer list webpage > > (http://wix.nzix.net/peers.html) to pre-configure passive[1] BGP > > peering sessions for all existing WIX participants. > > > > So feel free to use your existing WIX IP addresses and AS numbers to > connect to > > > > IP: 202.7.0.119 > > Aut-num: 9483 > > > > Things to look for: > > 1) It should pass you the routes that it learns from the route > > servers with the Flatnet AS in the path but with the original next > > hops. This longer path should mean that you won't explicitly prefer > > the routes from me. Bit of safety there. > > 2) It will pass you any other routes that people pass me directly. > > > > As I mentioned before we've got a few more plans. The next phase will > > start to take us a bit beyond what the current exchanges offer. > > > > In the new year we are going to deploy a similar switch at the APE. > > This hardware will become part of the single SDN controlled switch > > that we currently have in Wellington. > > When you peer with the OpenFlow switch at the WIX you'll get APE > > prefixes as well. Peer at the APE, you'll get WIX prefixes. > > > > Once we can get some traffic on the fabric and a presence at multiple > > places then we can really start to innovate. > > > > . BGP prefix communities based on the millisecond difference between > > your peering port and the prefix next hop > > . BGP aware RPF on the exchange (solves the pointing default problem) > > > > Got any other ideas. Throw them in the mix and we'll see what we can do. > > > > > > Have a Merry Christmas everyone. > > > > > > Regards, > > Dean > > > > > > > > [1] Passive means that I'll never reach out and initiate a session > > with you. You need to initiate the session with me. Just safer > > incase people think that I'm TCP Port 179 hax0r-ing them. > > _______________________________________________ > > NZNOG mailing list > > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > > > -- Regards, Dean

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