May 2014 - NZNOG - lists.nznog.org

IANA IPv4 Recovered Address Space registry updated
by Leo Vegoda 19 May '14

19 May '14

Hi, ICANN has updated the IANA IPv4 Recovered Address Space registry after LACNIC notified it that it has less than a total of a /9 in its inventory of IPv4 address space. This triggered the activation the Recovered IPv4 pool, which was created in the Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA. The address space selection is made using software that tries to allocate blocks based on the RIR managing the DNS for that /8. The software, along with a worked example, is published at: https://github.com/icann/ The list of allocations can be found at: https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-recovered-address-space/ipv4-recovered -address-space.xhtml#ipv4-recovered-address-space-2 Kind regards, Leo Vegoda

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Real world experiences with Chorus ATA Voice service sought
by Alexander Neilson 19 May '14

19 May '14

Hi All I am looking for anyone who is using Chorus ATA Voice as part of their UFB offerings who would be willing to share experiences / advice / etc with me. I am trying to firm up exactly how we want to deploy things and the choices we will make and while the Chorus documents are fine some real world experiences / pitfalls / tips and tricks that could help shape how I do it or come back to the “lovely in theory, horrible in practice” that can be a common outcome. At the same time if anyone wants to share any similar information on the UFB Data plans / circuits then I would be most interested in anything people could share with me. Thank you all for your time. Regards Alexander Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited alexander(a)neilson.net.nz 021 329 681 022 456 2326

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NZNOG 2015 Programme Commitee
by Jamie Baddeley 12 May '14

12 May '14

Afternoon everyone, The NZNOG 2015 Programme Committee is responsible for the solicitation and selection of suitable presentation and tutorial content for the NZNOG 2015 conference (www.nznog.org). NZNOG 2015 will be held in Rotorua at the Distinction Hotel, which is conveniently located between the airport and the town centre. The dates for NZNOG 2015 are 29 - 30th January. The NZNOG Trustees selects a new Programme Committee each year and is now seeking nominations from the community. Eligible PC candidates are those who have attended NZNOG conferences in the recent past, have broad technical knowledge of Internet operations, and have reasonable familiarity with the format of NZNOG conferences. Having constructive opinions and ideas about how the programme content might be improved is of high value too. PC members are expected to work actively to solicit content for the event and review submissions for technical merit. The PC will meet by regular conference calls, during the months prior to the event. If you are interested in joining the PC send a brief note to "trustees at nznog.org". The note should include affiliation (if any) and contact details (including e-mail address), and a brief description of why you would make a good addition to the PC. PC members receive complimentary registration for the event. The NZNOG Trustees will accept nominations received by the end of Friday 30th June, 2014, and will announce the new PC shortly thereafter. Many thanks! NZNOG Trustees

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A vs AAAA
by Mark Foster 11 May '14

11 May '14

Hello learned NZNOG-folks, Many of you have been working hands-on with IPv6 a lot more than I have, so i'll ask this here. In two cases, on two discrete systems, both Windows clients (one a Windows 7 workstation, the other a Windows 2008R2 server) a 'ping'[1] is run against a hostname. In both cases a ping against a v6 IP address is tried (and failed, as the host has no v6 connectivity - and in at least one case, v6 is actually disabled in the network interface settings). A simple 'nslookup' check without specifying the query type returns both IPv6 and IPv4 responses for the hostname. So why is the client trying to ping a v6 address when it has no v6 connectivity? (and for the record, an answer of 'make v6 work' doesn't solve my problem, as much as it might be a simple resolution.) Cheers Mark. [1] as you can probably guess, ping isn't actually the end-use of this connectivity, but it was the first troubleshooting measure used. This is impacting on application-layer connectivity, so 'use-v4-only' ping syntax also doesn't help me. :-)

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TICSA "Guidance for Network Operators" released
by Michael Fincham 11 May '14

11 May '14

Hi all, Just a heads up to anyone who hasn't spotted it, it seems the "Guidance for Network Operators" document has been released by the NCSC. More info at: <http://ncsc.govt.nz/ticsa/> -- Michael

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Average Usage Per Service
by Skeeve Stevens 11 May '14

11 May '14

Hey all, Just doing some math and capacity planning and I am wondering what others use for numbers for the average usage of a service per user? I am working with NBN-like speeds of 12mb, 25, 50 and 100. Back in the day I used to factor it in at around 30% when we were doing dialup and low-speed DSL... and on ADSL2 I normally factored it at around 15%. But I am wondering what people use for NBN-like speeds. I am thinking that a percentage is probably not a realistic measurement anymore as there is no particular reason a 25, 50 or 100mb user would do more or less on average... they just have the capacity to do more. Does anyone else have any thoughts they are willing to share, or even real observations across a significant number (thousands) of customers that they use for bandwidth (agvc and/or transit) planning? Feel free to off-list if you want to keep the information anonymous... I am happy to publish some findings and a spreadsheet for the use of others. Thanks all. ...Skeeve *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd skeeve(a)eintellegonetworks.co.nz ; www.eintellegonetworks.co.nz Phone: +612 8014 7398; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellegonetworks ; <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> linkedin.com/in/skeeve twitter.com/theispguy ; blog: www.theispguy.com The Experts Who The Experts Call Juniper - Cisco - Cloud - Consulting - IPv4 Brokering

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Transit in Skytower
by Ben Cornish 11 May '14

11 May '14

Hey All, Looking for some Transit Capacity in Sky Tower for out of Band Management and possibly some Failover capacity. We are on Level 47 of Sky Tower and looking for the Cross connect.. Can anyone help me out ? Cheers.

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Location and venue confirmed for NZNOG 2015
by Krystal Waine 08 May '14

08 May '14

Dear List, The location and venue are all locked in and I can officially announce that next years NZNOG conference will be held in Rotorua at the Distinction Hotel, which is conveniently located between the airport and the town centre. The dates for NZNOG 2015 are 29 - 30th January. Look forward to seeing a lot of you there! Cheers Krystal -- Krystal Waine Events Lead, InternetNZ DDI: 04 472 1601 Mobile:027 6555 450 *To promote the Internet's benefits and uses, and protect its potential.*

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Best Practice - prefix advertisement
by Alexander Neilson 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hi All At $Dayjob I have been working around an aggregation bug in our routers and manually specifying prefix’s at the three levels we operate (/22, /23, /24) and using prefix filters to advertise /24’s to APE / WIX, /23’s to our domestic transit, and only the /22’s to international transit as a method of Traffic Management / Traffic Engineering to utilise cheapest links available. I have been exploring the looking glass services of a number of entities to see what propagates to them (that they enter into the forwarding database) and I am seeing some entities (who announce peering at APE for example) having the /22 and /23 routes in the LG outputs and following the /23 path in trace route. I am asking for two fold information. Can someone / everyone point me at their best guide to BGP “Best Practice” regarding advertising prefixes? and also can I get people’s specific advice about what they accept / do to announcements before entering them into their routers as accepted routes and what they would expect to see advertised to ensure my goals are reached. I made these changes to help reduce my contribution to the ballooning of the global routing table but I also don’t want to go to extremes on polluting the APE routing table by advertising the 12 /24’s plus the 6 /23’s and the 3 /22’s. Also can I get consensus information (or peoples opinions) about am I abusing / dis respecting APE with my announcements and how I should structure my announcements to be a respectable citizen here while providing the best hints to my preferred handling of traffic? (and feel free to let me know if I should just announce the /22’s and accept that some people choose to prioritise other paths) Thank you in advance for any input, feel free to reply off list. Regards Alexander Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited alexander(a)neilson.net.nz 021 329 681 022 456 2326

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APNIC 38 Call for Papers
by Dean Pemberton 05 May '14

05 May '14

___________________________________________________________________ APNIC 38 Conference - Call for Papers ___________________________________________________________________ The APNIC 38 Program Committee is now seeking presentations for the APNIC 38 Conference to be held in Brisbane, Australia, from 15 - 19 September 2014. We are looking for content that would suit the APOPS Plenary, technical conference sessions, and tutorials. Key dates --------- The timeline for submissions is: Call for Papers Opens Now First Round Paper Acceptance 1 August Final Deadline for Submissions 29 August Final Round Paper Acceptance 5 September Final Slides Received 12 September Submitting Proposals -------------------- Please submit your proposal for a presentation, technical session, or tutorial at: http://submission.apnic.net/user/login.php?event=14 Program material ---------------- The technical sessions at APNIC 38 will include presentations relevant to Internet operations and technologies. Possible areas of interest include: - IPv6 deployment and operations - IPv6 transition / IPv4 prolongation technologies - ISP and Carrier Services - IXPs and Peering - Network and Infrastructure security - Access and Transport Technologies - Content and Service Delivery - Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization If you have any other ideas or proposals for panel or Birds of a Feather sessions, please feel free to submit your ideas via the submission system. If you have any questions, please email the Program Committee chairs at: pc-chairs(a)apricot.net For more information about APNIC 38, please visit: http://conference.apnic.net/38 On behalf of: APNIC 38 Program Committee Co-chairs: Dean Pemberton, Mark Tinka, and Raphael Ho

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