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Sun RAQ's
by Matthew G Brown 20 May '03

20 May '03

Who in NZ distributes Sun's Cobalt range Web Hosting Appliances? Any admins have a good contact ? Best Regards Matthew G Brown B & R Holdings LTD http://www.brh.co.nz

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RE: [nznog] XTRA Primary DNS Funkiness?
by Neil Gardner 19 May '03

19 May '03

Well, after 5 days of constant hassling, someone from Xtra finally rang me back and said they had fixed the TCP query problem on alien, and it does appear to be ok (for me at least) now... They also mentioned off the record that alien was slow this morning but didn't elaborate. They did say they were looking at it though. Cheers - N. -----Original Message----- From: Simon Byrnand [mailto:simon(a)igrin.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2003 10:47 a.m. To: Neil Gardner; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] XTRA Primary DNS Funkiness? At 17:26 15/05/03 +1200, Neil Gardner wrote: >Hi guys - has anyone noticed anything funky with Xtra's DNS over the >last 2 or 3 days? I have a client that had periodic mail buildups on >outbound SMTP and the error was 'Unable to bind to the destination >server in DNS'. After lots of false starts I got to Xtra DNS... Just checked both Xtra's DNS servers now for other reasons (tracking down an incorrect authorative dns record) and noticed that 202.27.184.3 is sometimes not responding at all - just getting a timeout rather than incomplete data. 202.27.184.5 seems ok. Regards, Simon

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Re: [nznog] XTRA Primary DNS Funkiness?
by Simon Byrnand 19 May '03

19 May '03

At 17:26 15/05/03 +1200, Neil Gardner wrote: >Hi guys - has anyone noticed anything funky with Xtra's DNS over the >last 2 or 3 days? I have a client that had periodic mail buildups on >outbound SMTP and the error was 'Unable to bind to the destination >server in DNS'. After lots of false starts I got to Xtra DNS... Just checked both Xtra's DNS servers now for other reasons (tracking down an incorrect authorative dns record) and noticed that 202.27.184.3 is sometimes not responding at all - just getting a timeout rather than incomplete data. 202.27.184.5 seems ok. Regards, Simon

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Anti Spam software
by Terence Bllyth 19 May '03

19 May '03

Can anyone tell me what the name of the Linux spam stopping software is, some one mentioned it a while ago, Email senders have to send a reply to it before it will pass on the email. (I know this description is vague). Thanks Terence Blyth Managing Director Computer Technologies Ltd 19 Alma Street Box 584, Nelson New Zealand Phone ++ 643 545 9001 Fax ++ 643 545 9002 www.ctec.co.nz PRIVILEGED - PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information, which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this email and you are not the addressee (or responsible for delivery of the email to the addressee), please disregard the contents of the email, delete the email and notify the author immediately.

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[c-announce] The InternetNZ Festival of Technology and AGM June 18-20 2003
by Peter Macaulay 19 May '03

19 May '03

(Informal announcement!) Please plan to be in Wellington for at least some part of these three days. The InternetNZ team, Industry NZ, the Next Generation Internet, and TUANZ in partnership with most of our sibling organisations has assembled an event which will deliver impact and value for every member of the internet community. The festival is is a work in progress and your input is welcome. To see the draft program. www.internetnz.net.nz/members/agm2003/festival_of_technology.html We will keep you informed through the discussion list as we develop the event. Please let any of your associates and friends now about our event. Registration will be available in the next week. We have appointed Martin Foster ( martin(a)internetnz.net.nz )as Festival Maestro. -- Peter Macaulay Executive Director InternetNZ Direct +64 4 495 2113 _______________________________________________

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XTRA Primary DNS Funkiness?
by Neil Gardner 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hi guys - has anyone noticed anything funky with Xtra's DNS over the last 2 or 3 days? I have a client that had periodic mail buildups on outbound SMTP and the error was 'Unable to bind to the destination server in DNS'. After lots of false starts I got to Xtra DNS... >Nslookup >Set vc (to force TCP which is I think SMTP's default lookup protocol) >Set q=mx >Server 202.27.184.3 I tried that and got much strangeness when I put in >swiftlink.co.nz I should have gotten... >Server: alien.xtra.co.nz >Address: 202.27.184.3 > >Non-authoritative answer: >swiftlink.co.nz MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.swiftlink.co.nz > >swiftlink.co.nz nameserver = dns1.clear.net.nz >swiftlink.co.nz nameserver = dns2.clear.net.nz >mail.swiftlink.co.nz internet address = 203.167.202.72 >dns1.clear.net.nz internet address = 203.97.33.1 >dns2.clear.net.nz internet address = 203.97.37.1 And in fact, I often do, but I also get... >Server: alien.xtra.co.nz >Address: 202.27.184.3 > >Non-authoritative answer: That's right, end of report - I have received stranger though - how about this??? >Server: alien.xtra.co.nz >Address: 202.27.184.3 >Non-authoritative answer: >swiftlink.co.nz MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.swiftlink.co.nz >swiftlink.co.nz nameserver = Invalid Name at offset 66! >*** Error: record size incorrect (-326254 != 17) >Non-authoritative answer: >swiftlink.co.nz MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.swiftlink.co.nz >swiftlink.co.nz nameserver = Invalid Name at offset 66! >*** Error: record size incorrect (-326254 != 17) >*** alien.xtra.co.nz can't find swiftlink.co.nz: Unspecified error (Blank lines removed for readability - sorry if they were important) I have reproduced these results from 3 different Internet connections, 2 Jetstreams (Both with Xtra) and a Jetstart with Attica. Same results at all 3 places... Oh, if I type >server 203.97.33.14 It all works perfectly... I rang Xtra and did speak to someone that sounded as if they knew what they were talking about, and even emailed copies of the above logs, and they claimed that nothing was wrong. Have I missed something blindingly obvious? Also, omitting 'set vc' to leave it on UDP makes alien.xtra.co.nz play nice again. Late discovery - 202.27.184.5 seems ok - this makes me suspect Xtra has problems even more, but my problems have been manifest over the last 3-4 days and they have denied any problems. Cheers - Neil Gardner Swiftlink NZ.

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RE: [nznog] XTRA mail system
by Neil Gardner 18 May '03

18 May '03

Well, I was having big problems with Mail delivery from an Xtra ADSL connection a few days ago and it turned out to be a misbehaving alien.xtra.co.nz - it was intermittently returning empty results or actual errors. Xtra fobbed me off and said there was nothing wrong with it, even in the face of logs showing actual errors... Any chance they are related? Am I going to get a bunch of calls from clients with Xtra this morning? Cheers - Neil G Simon Lyall wrote: >A quick look at the logs shows it's been dead since around 23:56 last night >apart from a couple of 10 minute wondows around an hour ago. A few errors >before that even. The online Network status even shows a problem so it must >be really bad (I've got a theory that Theresa has to approve these herself) > >They were advertising for a mail admin a couple of months ago so maybe the >new guy pressed the wrong button.

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Correction....
by rdesalis＠paradise.net.nz 17 May '03

17 May '03

That should have read...... /* Early bird registrations close on the 30th MAY......" sorry about that... brain thinking 30 words ahead of fingers... Also John H'ng from APNIC will be providing a full days training on Wednesday the 9th July, to complement Joe Ableys tutorials... I'll be away from my mail for the next couple of days but my phone number is 025 481 452 should anyone have any queries about the conference.. Rgds Roger De Salis

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SIP/PSTN gateway in New Zealand
by Joe Abley 14 May '03

14 May '03

Does anybody know of any SIP/PSTN gateways operating in New Zealand, commercial or otherwise?

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RE: [nznog] Xtra having smtp problems ?
by Michael Bordignon 08 May '03

08 May '03

> db:/var/www/webmail2/horde/imp# telnet xtra.co.nz 25 > Trying 202.27.184.102... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host My apologies, wrong host.. though same response for mta.xtra.co.nz

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RE: [nznog] Xtra having smtp problems ?
by Alan Howard 08 May '03

08 May '03

One of my colleagues has spoken to the helpdesk who informed him that there was a minor problem with emails being delayed approx 2 hours. Regards Alan. Pacific Technology Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Edward Yardley [mailto:edward(a)edan.co.nz] Sent: Friday, 9 May 2003 16:47 To: Simon Byrnand Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Xtra having smtp problems ? I just tried it on another line here - seemed to work fine. Edward Edan NET ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Byrnand" <simon(a)igrin.co.nz> To: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:43 PM Subject: [nznog] Xtra having smtp problems ? > Hi People, > > Is anyone else noticing problems trying to deliver mail to xtra ? I've just > noticed I've got several hours worth of stuff in the outgoing queue > for xtra that isn't getting through. Manually telneting to > mta.xtra.co.nz 25 results in a hanging connection. > > Naturally, "Currently there are no known problems on the Xtra > network." according to Xtra's help page ;-) > > Regards, > Simon Byrnand > iGRIN Internet > > _______________________________________________ > 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

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RE: [nznog] Xtra having smtp problems ?
by Michael Bordignon 08 May '03

08 May '03

> > Hi People, > > > > Is anyone else noticing problems trying to deliver mail to > xtra ? I've > just > > noticed I've got several hours worth of stuff in the > outgoing queue for > > xtra that isn't getting through. Manually telneting to > mta.xtra.co.nz 25 > > results in a hanging connection. > > > > Naturally, "Currently there are no known problems on the > Xtra network." > > according to Xtra's help page ;-) db:/var/www/webmail2/horde/imp# telnet xtra.co.nz 25 Trying 202.27.184.102... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host

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Xtra having smtp problems ?
by Simon Byrnand 08 May '03

08 May '03

Hi People, Is anyone else noticing problems trying to deliver mail to xtra ? I've just noticed I've got several hours worth of stuff in the outgoing queue for xtra that isn't getting through. Manually telneting to mta.xtra.co.nz 25 results in a hanging connection. Naturally, "Currently there are no known problems on the Xtra network." according to Xtra's help page ;-) Regards, Simon Byrnand iGRIN Internet

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Can anyone tell me
by Simon Son 08 May '03

08 May '03

Can anyone tell me how ISP differentiate how much National and International traffic their jetstart customers uses? I think that If accounting packet is proxies from telecom's radius,then ISP must do something to distinguish National and International traffic. Thanks in advance SImon

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Cisco 7206/7204 router chassis...
by Dan Clark 07 May '03

07 May '03

Hi all, Does anyone happen to have a Cisco 7206/7204 router chassis we could borrow for a lab/project for a short period of time? Please contact me offlist. Kind Regards Dan Clark Network Manager Scarfies.Net Ltd

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OT: Cisco Flash
by Dan Clark 07 May '03

07 May '03

Hey guys, I'm after a 16 Meg Cisco Flash Card, would anyone of you happen to have one spare? If you do, please contact me off-list Regards, Dan Clark Network Manager Scarfies.Net Ltd

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Anyone want a job?
by Mark Frater 07 May '03

07 May '03

http://www.quicksilver.net.nz/sysadmin.html contact me off list. Mark

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The New Zealand Network Operators' Group
by Donald Neal 05 May '03

05 May '03

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. NZNOG held a face to face gathering as part of the UniForum NZ conference in 2002, and is to do the same again from 10-12 July this year. See http://www.uniforum.org.nz/conference 2003/conference.html for details. The NZNOG schedule there is well short of final. NZNOG doesn't hold other national face to face meetings, but see http://thursdaynightcurry.com/ if you live in or near Wellington or Auckland. 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 rather than by most customers. Auckland Peering Exchange See http://www.ape.net.nz/ for details of the Auckland Peering Exchange and those connected there. About This Mailing List This list has around 470 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. The NZNOG mailing list is provided through a server at The University of Waikato, and is administered by an employee of Telecom NZ Ltd. Neither of these organisations, nor the 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/archives/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 administrator remains happy to assist the Office of the Privacy Commissioner should any complaint be laid with that office. Subscribing to the List See http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog to subscribe. Donald Neal NZNOG Mailing List Owner/Administrator/Muggins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Live Web Presentations On the Certificate in Web-based Instruction
by Derek Lee 05 May '03

05 May '03

Hi: I would like to invite you to a live Web presentation from The Learning and Instructional Development Centre at Simon Fraser University (www.sfu.ca/lidc/telestraining/) about the Certificate in Web-Based Instruction (CWI), an online program to teach participants to design, produce, and teach online courses. The CWI instructors will give presentations to respond to questions about the next offering of the program, scheduled on June 2nd. There will be three presentation sessions in May: May 12 - 1200hrs Pacific Time (GMT -08:00), May 21 - 1700hrs Pacific Time (GMT -08:00), and May 26 - 0800hrs Pacific Time (GMT -08:00). These interactive presentations will be led by the program instructors Dr. Lucio Teles and Judith Jensen. Please go to http://www.sfu.ca/lidc/telestraining for more information and to register for the presentation sessions. If you have questions about the program, please contact Jill Jodrey at jajodrey(a)sfu.ca Derek Lee

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people blocking "all APNIC space"
by Joe Abley 04 May '03

04 May '03

There's recurring wisdom on other lists that people outside the Asia Pacific region routinely block "all APNIC space" in order to reduce the amount of spam they receive (the most recent example was on NANOG, when someone inferred that APNIC address space was useless because it is so regularly blocked). I've run MTAs numbered within 202/8 and 203/8 before, and I've never noticed a problem; if the practice of blocking all APNIC space was that commonplace, I would have expected to have noticed. Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe these block-happy ISPs don't include 202/8 and 203/8 in "all APNIC space". Anybody here noticed widespread blocking of any APNIC ranges by ISPs elsewhere in the world? Joe

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RE: [nznog] IPv6 in NZ?
by Paul Brislen 04 May '03

04 May '03

In defence of the Xtra PR spokeswoman Anna, I have to say she is entirely new to the world of ICT and when I asked her about IP numbers/addresses she'd never heard the term before... I asked her about IPv6 more as a separate point ("... and what about plans to roll out IPv6?") rather than as a solution to the allocation issue... I guess it's not really on topic to have it in the story alongside the rest but she had so little to say on the matter (oddly) that there really wasn't enough for a separate story.

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OT - Remote access
by rod_christie＠wilsonandhorton.co.nz 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

OT - Is anyone working on anything new for high-speed remote access, for areas that will never yet DSL or other cable services? Satellite with dialup is fine, but after 15 km of copper, having bypassed electric fence units, then factoring encapsulation, corporate VPN, and remote access client to said box, more gg's would be good. It's a question I get asked from time to time. Any suggestions would be good. Reply of list. Cheers Rod Christie APN News & Media *************************************************************************** This may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Wilson & Horton Limited. For more information on Wilson & Horton please visit our web site at http://www.wilsonandhorton.co.nz ***************************************************************************

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Re: [nznog] people blocking "all APNIC space"
by Steve Phillips 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Just recently came across another blocking of 210.0.0.0/8 with chat servers. While probably not considered by many to be a productive service :-) it does still show attitudes that say "APNIC ? forget it" and this attitude appears to be markedly prevalent amongst US based admins and now appears to be expanding to cover services other than e-mail. -- Steve. At 11:46 30/04/2003 +1200, Alastair Johnson wrote: >Yes - we have seen this quite reguarly. Specifically, the >210/8 network seems particuarly disliked. > >pbi.net used to block connections from 210/8 but not from >202/7 for a good part of 2002. > > >We have customers complain about it every so often, but I forget >what the most recent case was - some little ISP in TX, IIRC. > > >aj... > >On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Joe Abley wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:35:10 -0400 > > From: Joe Abley <jabley(a)automagic.org> > > To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > Subject: [nznog] people blocking "all APNIC space" > > > > There's recurring wisdom on other lists that people outside the Asia > > Pacific region routinely block "all APNIC space" in order to reduce the > > amount of spam they receive (the most recent example was on NANOG, when > > someone inferred that APNIC address space was useless because it is so > > regularly blocked). > > > > I've run MTAs numbered within 202/8 and 203/8 before, and I've never > > noticed a problem; if the practice of blocking all APNIC space was that > > commonplace, I would have expected to have noticed. Maybe I was just > > lucky, or maybe these block-happy ISPs don't include 202/8 and 203/8 in > > "all APNIC space". > > > > Anybody here noticed widespread blocking of any APNIC ranges by ISPs > > elsewhere in the world? > > > > > > Joe > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nznog mailing list > > Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > > >--- >Never attempt with words what can be achieved with a flame thrower. > >_______________________________________________ >Nznog mailing list >Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz >http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

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WTS: CISCO AS5800 192VOX 2CT3 - new! Oboxed - LOW PRICE!
by cavin＠getintoweb.com 26 Apr '03

26 Apr '03

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Telstra Outage
by robbie_gernandt＠wilsonandhorton.co.nz 16 Apr '03

16 Apr '03

Did anybody else experience problems with Telstra IP Services this morning ( 00:30 to 02:00 and 06:50 to 7:50)? Apparently one of their main core switches had a faulty port or something, I'm still waiting for a report Robbie Gernandt Network Consultant APN News & Media robbie_gernandt(a)apn.co.nz Mobile: (64) 21 736 086 DDI: (64) 9 977 9577 Fax: (64) 9 373 6411 *************************************************************************** This may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Wilson & Horton Limited. For more information on Wilson & Horton please visit our web site at http://www.wilsonandhorton.co.nz ***************************************************************************

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