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Notification of NZRR Database changes
by NZRR Database Notifications 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

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. The update causing these changes had the following mail headers: - From: Andy Linton <asjl(a)citylink.co.nz> - Cc: - Subject: [CityLink #1886] Routing updates for WIX Route Servers (fwd) - Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:56:03 +1300 (NZDT) - Msg-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502161352230.13398(a)jennings.citylink.co.nz> NZRR Database Notification Department --- PREVIOUS OBJECT: route-set: AS9439:RS-ROUTES:AS9503 descr: advertised to AS9439 by FX Networks - AS9503 members: 131.203.0.0/16^16-29, 161.29.0.0/16^16-29, 161.65.0.0/16^16-29, 192.88.85.0/24^24-29, 202.36.226.0/24^24-29, 202.37.86.0/23^23-29, 202.49.80.0/23^23-29, 202.50.52.0/22^22-29, 202.50.196.0/22^22-29, 202.50.200.0/21^21-29, 202.50.208.0/20^20-29, 192.133.31.0/24^24-29 admin-c: RPA1-NZRR tech-c: RPA1-NZRR notify: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net notify: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz notify: mplant(a)fx.net.nz mnt-by: MAINT-NZRR-NZ changed: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net 20041221 source: NZRR REPLACED BY: route-set: AS9439:RS-ROUTES:AS9503 descr: advertised to AS9439 by FX Networks - AS9503 members: 131.203.0.0/16^16-29, 161.29.0.0/16^16-29, 161.65.0.0/16^16-29, 192.88.85.0/24^24-29, 192.133.31.0/24^24-29, 202.36.226.0/24^24-29, 202.37.86.0/23^23-29, 202.49.80.0/23^23-29, 202.50.52.0/22^22-29, 202.50.196.0/22^22-29, 202.50.200.0/21^21-29, 202.50.208.0/20^20-29, 202.53.176.0/20^20-29 admin-c: RPA1-NZRR tech-c: RPA1-NZRR notify: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net notify: noc-minor(a)fx.net.nz mnt-by: MAINT-NZRR-NZ changed: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net 20050216 source: NZRR

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Notification of NZRR Database changes
by NZRR Database Notifications 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

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. The update causing these changes had the following mail headers: - From: Andy Linton <asjl(a)citylink.co.nz> - Cc: - Subject: - Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:51:34 +1300 (NZDT) - Msg-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502161350450.13398(a)jennings.citylink.co.nz> NZRR Database Notification Department --- PREVIOUS OBJECT: aut-num: AS9503 as-name: NZRR-AS9503 descr: FX Networks descr: APE peering at '192.203.154.115' descr: see Citylink RT job #1789 admin-c: RPA1-NZRR tech-c: RPA1-NZRR import: from AS9560 accept ANY AND NOT fltr-bogons export: to AS9560 announce AS9503 notify: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net notify: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz notify: noc(a)fx.net.nz mnt-by: MAINT-NZRR-NZ changed: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net 20050127 source: NZRR REPLACED BY: aut-num: AS9503 as-name: NZRR-AS9503 descr: FX Networks descr: APE peering at '192.203.154.115' descr: see Citylink RT job #1789 admin-c: RPA1-NZRR tech-c: RPA1-NZRR import: from AS9560 accept ANY AND NOT fltr-bogons export: to AS9560 announce AS9503 import: from AS9439 accept ANY AND NOT fltr-bogons export: to AS9439 announce AS9503 notify: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net notify: noc(a)fx.net.nz mnt-by: MAINT-NZRR-NZ changed: rpsl-admin(a)nzix.net 20050216 source: NZRR

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FW: [Apnic-announce] Unable to travel to Kyoto to attend APNIC 19?
by Nurani Nimpuno 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

While I'm at it, I thought it'd be useful to forward this information too. The APNIC meeting is on next week (Mo-Fri) and as explained below, even if you can't travel to Kyoto for the meeting, you can participate in the meeting remotely through video streams, transcripts and jabber chat. The meeting programme is here: http://www.apnic.net/meetings/19/programme/ It's worth noting that 9am in Kyoto is 1pm in NZ. Cheers, Nurani Nimpuno APNIC -----Original Message----- From: apnic-announce-bounces(a)lists.apnic.net [mailto:apnic-announce-bounces(a)lists.apnic.net] On Behalf Of Secretariat Sent: 14 February 2005 17:24 To: apnic-announce(a)apnic.net Subject: [Apnic-announce] Unable to travel to Kyoto to attend APNIC 19? --------------------------------------------- Unable to travel to Kyoto to attend APNIC 19? --------------------------------------------- Attend online instead! You can participate in the meeting from anywhere in the world by taking advantage of APNIC's online video, transcript and chat features. Live meeting features --------------------- The following APNIC 19 sessions will be video streamed and have live transcripts. You can have your input into each of these sessions via the Jabber chat room "room1". Your questions and comments will then be read out to the onsite attendees: Date Time Session ---- ----- ------- 22 Feb 16:00-17.30 Internet governance open forum 23 Feb 11.00-12.30 IPv6 technical SIG 14:00-17.30 Routing SIG 24 Feb 09:00-12.00 Policy SIG 14:00-15:30 Database SIG 16:00-17:30 DNS operations SIG 25 Feb 09:00-17:30 APNIC Members Meeting Note: all times quoted above are local times in Japan. Other APNIC SIG sessions that are not being video streamed will be available by Jabber chat room "room2". Full details on how to participate remotely are available at: http://www.apnic.net/meetings/19/programme/features.html New: webcast tutorials for participating universities ----------------------------------------------------- With assistance from School of Internet (SOI) Asia and the WIDE project, the following tutorials will be broadcast over the network to SOI partner universities: Date Time Session ---- ----- ------- 21 Feb 09:00-12:30 Dynamics of policy process 14:00-17:30 Spam prevention 22 Feb 09:00-10:30 Keynote: security protocol 11:00-12:30 Certification Authority 14:00-17:30 ISP Security Strategy Information about the broadcasts along with details of participating partners will shortly be available on the APNIC website and at: http://www.soi.wide.ad.jp ______________________________________________________________________ APNIC Secretariat <secretariat(a)apnic.net> APNIC ph +61 7 3858 3100 http://www.apnic.net fx +61 7 3858 3199 ______________________________________________________________________ See you at APNIC-19 Kyoto, Japan, 21 to 25 Feb 2005 and APRICOT 2005 http://www.apnic.net/meetings ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Apnic-announce mailing list Apnic-announce(a)lists.apnic.net http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apnic-announce

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Stuff.co.nz Routing & Peering @ Wix?
by Craig Spiers 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Anyone noticed the ip block maintained by stuff.co.nz is not actually being advertised to the wix route servers? The route I'm receiving, is from Telstra Clear, and is a /24. BGP routing table entry for 202.135.111.0/24, version 235662 Paths: (1 available, best #1, table Default-IP-Routing-Table) Not advertised to any peer 4768 2687 203.167.219.181 from 203.167.219.181 (203.97.2.199) Origin incomplete, localpref 100, valid, external, best Are they another 'listen only' peer? Cheers, Craig - ConceptNET

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Notes from NZNOG 05 history of peering session
by Ian McDonald 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Notes from NZNOG 05 history of peering session Folks these are my notes taken down as clarifications/expansions to Joe's notes. Please feel free to tell me where I've got it wrong as I was writing quite quickly…. Talking to Joe there was a suggestion from someone that we put together a Wiki to collect this altogether as a NZ Internet History. Sounds good to me and we could add whole sections on 0867, IPNet and start writing active history on UBS etc. Joe mentioned David Dixon (KCBBS) had done a history page of Internet in NZ which may be a good starting point along with his presentation, these notes and everybody's thoughts... Does anybody have a spare place for a Wiki etc? In the short term do the WLUG members mind if I start a page on there as a temporary home? 1989 KCBBS started Internet link doubled at Waikato from 2.4 to 4.8 Kb/sec Original connection into Waikato was CSNET (sp ??) Connected to DSIR through DSIR routers – 4.8 K links on PC after failing to get working on X25 – Massey was also piggy backed off this as well 1989-1996 Nearly every routing protocol was used except BGP Clear was back through to MCI In effect peering at universities through Tuianet – This was pulled after DOS attack around 1995 at Cybernet conference against ICONZ. Paid for charging for capacity at this time – world leading at the time FreeNet in Wellington 1997/1998 – Home Fibre project canned by Telecom – When did it start? 1998 ADSL launch announced – this was aimed primarily at video July 1998 202.7.0.0/23 – came out of Dunedin City Council. Attempts to give parts of this out to customers through ISPs Citylink – unique as MAN and exchange building out to ISPs 1998 When National Library peered it was on a 386 notebook with two Ethernet cards running Linux 1999 Joe had idea of using Sky tower for peering after riding on a bus and seeing it looming above him ICONZ, Iprolink, KCBBS hosted an abortive exchange through ISDN. Centrex suggested by Max Gustin for this as well. Level 48 at Sky Tower was logical because Clear had fibre and could host internal aerials there also due to type of glass. Correction to a slide – Roger found switch not Richard 1999 192.203.154.0/24 – original owner was Children's Discovery Centre (not sure of this location as didn't hear clearly) Order of acquisitions: Saturn eats Paradise Telstra eats Netlink Telstra eats Saturn i4free was using Clear Network 1994 or 1996 One of International cables broken. Pacrim East built before Pacrim West. Shortly after Pacrim East failed. A couple of people suggested that this was due to a ship pulling anchor just after fixing something else. Between 1995/1996 and 2001. Waikato no longer main connectivity. Rex Croft not looking after .nz. Telecom/Netway got it because nobody else wanted it. Chello ran flat rate cable in Wellington until getting killed in 2001 by Napster. Had a GRE tunnel to Midwest America 2003 MCI were selling Voyager transport. Satellite connection to OzEmail – GRE tunnel also through terrestrial. Subsequent DS3 to Sydney – Late 2003/early 2003 Before Southern Cross Clear and Telecom were sending large packets via satellite and small via cable to help get more traffic through It was May 2004 not Nov 2004 Telstra announce intention to de-peer from APE Early 2004 Telecom withdrew route servers from Exchange Mid 2003 Xtra becomes more residential only. Global Gateway/CID for businesses. Was it at this time Xtra was folded back into Telecom company or earlier?

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RE: [nznog] NZ NPA/NXX
by Donald Neal 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

> From: J S Russell [mailto:jsr(a)jsr.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 1:29 p.m. > To: nznog > Subject: Re: [nznog] NZ NPA/NXX > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Steve Phillips wrote: > > > In the spirit of helpfulness I have thrown together a small > program to > > help you in your endevor. This thread has lost any operational relevance it may have had. Time to leave it alone, people. - Donald Neal List Administrator Donald Neal |Do not look directly at laser with Technical Specialist |remaining good eye. NGN Operations | - Bill Manning 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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Walker Wireless /
by Garrett Stoupe 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

If anyone on this list that works for walker wireless / woosh, can you please get hold a hold off me off the list. I need to get some information of our routers on our vpn. Regards Garrett Stoupe Network And Database Administrator Cabbage Tree Press garretts(a)te.co.nz www.te.co.nz www.jobzone.co.nz www.nzcarbuys.co.nz

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NZ NPA/NXX
by Joshua Brady 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hello all If the phone number for a NZ Company is +64 3 548 1111 would the NPA be 3 and NXX 548? If not, can someone correct me?

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RE: [nznog] NZ NPA/NXX
by Philip D'Ath 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

ps. Works great XP with ActiveState perl. -----Original Message----- ... In the spirit of helpfulness I have thrown together a small program to help you in your endevor. ... Hope you find it helpful. (Note, you will need perl installed in /usr/bin/perl, and it will need to be run on some *ix box, also, dont make $x anything other than 0 or weird things may happen, oh, and you can alter $number to be the number of values you require for your database thingy wotsit.)

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RE: [nznog] IP address allocations and geographic areas
by Gordon Smith 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Unfortunately there are some in the U.S. that do block all APNIC space, mainly due to the amount of spam originating from China and Korea. Personally, I think putting Florida into its own address range and null routing it would have a far greater impact on the global spam levels :-) I'd suggest emailing them from an address that isn't blocked and point out the error of their ways Cheers, Gordon

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Re: [nznog] Stuff.co.nz Routing & Peering @ Wix?
by neil gardner 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

I'm really sorry for this, but it was just screaming out at me :-) > Speaking of stuff.co.nz, is anyone else having trouble reaching it in the > last half hour ? And trademe ? Seems to be stopping at the hop > nzlapwn1.nz.ip.att.net. I think you mean 'nzlaPWNED1.nz.ip.att.net' :-) Cheers - N. >>> David Zanetti <david.zanetti(a)catalyst.net.nz> 14/02/2005 11:03:22 a.m. >>> [sending to NZNOG properly this time!] On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:53 +1300, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Speaking of stuff.co.nz, is anyone else having trouble reaching it in the > last half hour ? And trademe ? Seems to be stopping at the hop > nzlapwn1.nz.ip.att.net. AT&T have an issue. Oddly the traffic is low, 20% of normal instead of the 60% the WIX-AT&T split we found before would indicate. I guess there's a bit of asymetric routing out there :| -- David Zanetti <david.zanetti(a)catalyst.net.nz> Team Leader, Systems Administration Catalyst IT Limited +64-4-8032233 +64-21-402260 NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesyn Research Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesyn Research.

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WIX Traffic
by Craig Spiers 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

Hi all, What was that last week about someone advertising some new content on wix? Our traffic to wix has more than doubled.. What was the content? Cheers Regards, Craig - ConceptNET

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More Key Signing Stuff
by Joe Abley 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Begin anonymous forwarded message: > I'm going to really prove my ignorance when it comes to all things > pgp. Now that we've done the verification as to who's who, and > everyone owns their own key, what does one do, so sign someone elses > key, or get their key signed by someone else ( should they want to ). I kind of forgot to talk about what we do after we were finished with all the hexadecimal and drivers licences. So here we go: 1. Download the public key ring from buglumber and import it. 2. For each person whose identified you are satisfied with, check the fingerprint on the downloaded keyring against the sheet of verified fingerprints. 3. If you feel like it, sign the key with yours. This is a convenient way to record the fact that you have verified the accuracy of the key. 4. If you feel like it, send the signed public key back to the person who gave it to you. This provides an additional path through the web of trust for people to trust your key, and is generally a handy thing to have. 5. If you feel like it, upload the key with your signature to one or more key servers. This is good for the same reasons that 4 is good. Lather, rinse, repeat for all keys.

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How many ISP's charge their customers to query DNS?
by Chris Hodgetts 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

I know this is a "consumer" question, but I find it very strange... Quote from the Paradise Help Desk Email system when questioned about why I was being charged to access kirsty.paradise.net.nz , their secondary DNS Server... "Kirsty is our secondary DNS server, you will get charged traffic connecting to our DNS servers." Any other people working for ISP's wanna comment on if they charge? I know, from what Xtra's support staff said, they don't.. I just find it really hard to believe.

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Denial of Service Attacks
by Anaru Hartley 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Has anyone noticed a surge in DDOS attacks from Asia? One of the Windoze servers I look after has been getting rather nailed these past few days. Most appear to be coming from Japan - at least 5 a day and every time within a few minutes of each other, lasting a minute or two. If I am really lucky, I'll get 20 in one day ... somebody loves me :-)

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Re: [nznog] pop from xtra adsl]
by Gavin Legge 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Thanks for the reply's. I imagine it is a problem with the local setup at the customer site. just wanted to get an idea from the experts before i went there.. Thanks again for the reply cheers Gavin PS - if anyone is interested in a job at DTS as 'technical guy' I'll possibly be leaving soon and I'm sure the boss here would love to hear from you. -- Kind Regards Gavin Legge Technical Manager DTS Limited phone +64 4914 5946 email gavin(a)dts.net.nz cellphone 021 441 299

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RE: [Nznog-org] RE: [nznog] NZNOG 06 - Potential Hosts.
by Peters MCS Mail 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Donald, I was assuming usual timescales when I made the offer - around end Jan/early Feb to make use of available student accommodation. However I'll investigate whether we can be a venue to work around ICANN on 27-31 March as indicated by Keith as that is a very attractive proposition. The issue is that it is in the middle of trimester 1 so our large lecture theatres are generally booked and student accommodation not available. It is more likely to be feasible for 3rd onwards as that is the last week before Easter. Give me a few days to investigate whether this can be arranged. Peter Dr. Peter Komisarczuk School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Victoria University of Wellington Wellington peterk(a)mcs.vuw.ac.nz Tel: +64 4 463 5661 -----Original Message----- From: nznog-org-admin(a)list.usenet.net.nz [mailto:nznog-org-admin(a)list.usenet.net.nz] On Behalf Of Donald Neal Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:21 AM To: Peters MCS Mail Cc: nznog-org(a)list.usenet.net.nz Subject: [Nznog-org] RE: [nznog] NZNOG 06 - Potential Hosts. Peter, Thanks for the offer. When are you offering to host a conference? Or put another way, are you offering to host something aroubnd the time of ICANN (early March 2006) or at another time when cheap accommodation si available? If the later, when roughly is that? - Donald Neal Donald Neal |Do not look directly at laser with Technical Specialist |remaining good eye. NGN Operations | - Bill Manning Integration & Services Division +----------------------------------- Alcatel NZ Ltd - Telecom's network operations manager > -----Original Message----- > From: Peters MCS Mail [mailto:peterk(a)mcs.vuw.ac.nz] > Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2005 5:03 p.m. > To: 'nznog' > Subject: RE: [nznog] NZNOG 06 - Potential Hosts. > > Simon, > > We'd be happy to host NZNOG 06 at VUW if Wellington is seen as a > reasonable venue. We know there are those who might prefer more > "neutral - driving distance from Auckland" ground, so won't > be offended > if the venue goes to someone else. > > Cheers > > Peter > > Dr. Peter Komisarczuk > School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences > Victoria University of Wellington > Wellington > peterk(a)mcs.vuw.ac.nz > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Lyall [mailto:simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz] > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 2:29 PM > To: nznog > Subject: [nznog] NZNOG 06 - Potential Hosts. > > > We are looking for potential hosts for NZNOG 06 in around a > year's time. > > If you think that you ( or an organization you are associated with) > might > want to host nznog next year then you should probably start thinking > seriously about it soon. > > We will probably send out a more formal call within the next > week or two > so the decision is made some time in March. > > We already have one early expression of interest. > > If you have questions about what is involved etc then the organizing > people or the WAND group can probably answer them. > > People can probably also suggest possible themes, formats and speakers > at > this point as well. Personally I vote for an on-site Masseuse. > > Email to me (I can summarized or forward) , the list or whoever. > > -- > Simon J. Lyall. | Very Busy | Mail: simon(a)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 > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ "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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ nznog-org mailing list nznog-org(a)list.usenet.net.nz http://usenet.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nznog-org

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NZNOG 06 - Potential Hosts.
by Simon Lyall 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

We are looking for potential hosts for NZNOG 06 in around a year's time. If you think that you ( or an organization you are associated with) might want to host nznog next year then you should probably start thinking seriously about it soon. We will probably send out a more formal call within the next week or two so the decision is made some time in March. We already have one early expression of interest. If you have questions about what is involved etc then the organizing people or the WAND group can probably answer them. People can probably also suggest possible themes, formats and speakers at this point as well. Personally I vote for an on-site Masseuse. Email to me (I can summarized or forward) , the list or whoever. -- Simon J. Lyall. | Very Busy | Mail: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.

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Webcasting FYI - Parliament
by Richard Naylor 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

FYI - TVNZ today started streaming Question Time (aka playtime) live from Parliament today. The links are available hidden in the TVNZ website under news -> politics -> 3rd column -> hidden word "live". The video is also being archived in case you missed something....... And its all multi-bit rate - including a stunning 2mbps stream. (must get better cameras) Bringing this back on topic..... it needs a bit better publicity than the current web page, and Network Operators Help Desks may need to explain why a 2mbps stream looks so much better than 56kbps as well as the usual questions like - "why don't I get sound" (coz you haven't turned on the speakers) etc. Congratulations to the folks at TVNZ - a great job. Just look at that 2mbps stream. <sigh> rich

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Re: [nznog] More Key Signing Stuff
by Ewen McNeill 06 Feb '05

06 Feb '05

In message <200502071721.05162.mark(a)mcs.vuw.ac.nz>, Mark Davies writes: >So from the key signing party we should be in the position that for anyone we >have verified we are happy that the pgp key we have the fingerprint for is >indeed for the person we met but the one thing that the process hasn't done >is confirm that all the email addresses listed in the key are under the >control of that person. > >To achieve this last step here is a process (lifted from the NetBSD developers >PGP guidelines): [...] I agree that the "keysigning" party approach generally bypasses actually confirming the email addresses really belong to the person in control of the key. (Which is unfortunate as the email address tends to be one of the more trusted parts.) The usual approach I've seen to confirm that the email address is correct is to send the signed key to the email address listed, encrypted with the key. And not upload the key/signature to a key server. That way only the person in control of both the email address (used) and the key is able to gain access to the signature, and it's not visible to anyone else until they've done so. The NetBSD approach seems to go further and confirm all the uids, providing one follows the elaborate process of tracking each "challenge" that is sent out against the particular uid it belongs to. But I'm not sure it's always necessary if one only signs uids one has other reasons to know are associated with the person in question. (I generally avoid signing uids for which I don't recognise the email address, for instance, unless it's the one to which the key is being sent.) As it happens I've already seen half a dozen new signatures for my key uploaded to the keyservers and not emailed to me, so those people presumably trust the email address for other reasons. Ewen

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Thanks
by Lin Nah 06 Feb '05

06 Feb '05

Thanks to Richard Nelson, Jamie Curtis, Perry Lorier, Leslie and the other folk for organising NZNOG05 and being such wonderful hosts. Thanks To Donald Neal, Joe Abley and other organisers for setting up the programme Thanks to the sponsors who contributed to making it happen. InternetNZ, Citylink, WAND, U of Waikato Juniper, 2day.com, APNIC, De Winter and others I have missed out (but I am sure those at WAND will add to the list). Last but not least Thanks to all who made it there (some despite problems with transport etc). Without the attendees, there would have been no nznog meet. lin

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Re: [nznog] Thanks
by Jonny Martin 06 Feb '05

06 Feb '05

...and thanks to Lin for organising large mounds of people, beer, and food at the unofficial dinners. An enjoyable time had by all I am sure. Cheers, Jonny.

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Peering stuff...
by David Zanetti 05 Feb '05

05 Feb '05

A certain provider of a large amount of content (which I can't name because I haven't got permission to announce this properly) is now peering on WIX. It's ~10-15M at peak. Make sure your prefixes are being sent to the WIX route servers, and you're accepting at least 202.135.111.128/27 from them, and you'll get a nice short path to it instead of via Auckland. If you have some aversion to open peering, well, you can just pay some other provider to get it. :) Enjoy. -- David Zanetti <david.zanetti(a)catalyst.net.nz> Team Leader, Systems Administration +64-4-8032233 +64-21-402260

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pgp key signing
by Joe Abley 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

If you want to sign keys this afternoon, and you're currently frantically scrabbling with gpg to try and get your keys into the web page, please continue trying until 4pm. Just after 4pm I'm going to take a snapshot of the keyring, and that's what we'll use for the signing shenanigans. If you haven't figured it out by 4pm, then you can stop trying then :-)

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Streaming Sessions after lunch
by Matt Brown 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Hi All, Coming up this afternoon at the NZNOG'05 Conference we have two programme streams starting at 13:30. You can view the details at www.nznog.org/programme.php. Stream A will have Liz Butterfield from Netsafe talking about NZ's Cybersafety Education Initiative. Stream B will have Joerg Micheel (NLANR) talking about 10GB Abilene Backbone Monitoring, followed by an update on WAND's current research activities. We only have one r2 box here, so only one of these streams will be streamed via r2. If you want to put in your vote as to which one, please reply to me (offlist is fine), before 13:00 today. Cheers -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz

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