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ANNOUNCE: Oscar James Abley
by Chris Wedgwood 05 Jan '00

05 Jan '00

Oscar James Abley, 8lb1 born 6 Jan 7:55. Mum and baby doing fine. Dad sounding very happy (and very tired). Congratulations Joe! -cw --------- 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: GMT Passes smoothly
by Arron Scott 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Our experience was similar to Jamie's with outbound traffic more than three times the usual, we shifted a little traffic just in case but it dropped rapidly after midnight. Overall it was a quiter 24 hours inbound than usual. As for the timestamp on my mail ... it's my Linux machine I only ever use when I'm offsite, and you're lucky it doesn't say 1984 !!! Arron On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Joe Abley wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:34:11AM +1300, Arron Scott wrote: > > Well NetGate has also withstood GMT with no hitches in reporting or > > traffic. Really our only issue was huge outbound traffic last night, other > > than that all's well. > > How much more traffic than usual? Do you have any numbers? > > Just interested :) > > > Joe > --------- 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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DNS Spring Cleaning -- Final four full days
by Patrick O' Brien 02 Jan '00

02 Jan '00

Happy New Year to you all, The DNS Spring Cleaning Project has now entered its final four full days. http://www.domainz.net.nz/newsstand/stories/SpringCleaning.html The program specially developed for analysis of the .nz domain space expires by January 7, so there is still time to take advantage right now. PROGRESS SO FAR ================ To-date, the results have been impressive. By last week, over 700 individual visitors had been to the site to download almost 550 copies of the special .nz program. Our surveys tell us that you've made changes to you DNS configurations that have fixed around 4,000 errors that the .nz program picked up. That is tremendous, so thanks. We've also seen significant reductions in the number of .nz domain names showing errors, moving from 28% of the .nz Register down to 25%. More detailed results of the last survey can be found at the Men and Mice site, http://sc.menandmice.com/statistic.html .nz TECHNICAL CONTACT DETAILS ============================ On a separate but connected note, we emailed all technical contacts listed in the .nz DNS 2 weeks ago with some startling results -- there was a bounce rate around 14% !!!! One purpose of the Technical contact is to be reachable so as to deal with any technical issues relating to the hosting of a domain -- this cannot happen where the email address is bouncing :() The key reasons that we could ascertain for this high rate were three fold:- 1. Using personal names -------------------------------------------- There are a considerable number of ISP's that use an individual person's name (eg fred(a).. or mary(a)...) rather than a functional name (eg dns(a)... or soa(a)...), and most bounced mail came from the former category. ISP's should consider the use of functional names for their technical contact rather than individual names, as the former have much more "permanence". 2. Name Holder listed as technical contact ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are a few ISP's that put the Name Holder's name as the technical contact and this does not appear to be updated as the Name Holder's details change. Moreover, most Name Holders who fell into this category and responded to our email knew precious little about the technical details of hosting their domain name. The technical contact should be someone who understands the technical issues of a domain name. Typically we would expect to see the organisation with the technical wherewithal to host the domain name shown in this field. ISP's should check to ensure that they list the appropriate technical contact person. 3. Not keeping details current ------------------------------------------------ The final category reflected organisations that had not kept current the domain name information. In many cases, it followed the move of a domain name from one ISP to another. Generally the IP details had been updated to make the domain work, but no other details (Name Holder, Billing, Technical contact) had changed. ISP's need to ensure that they do keep all domain details up-to-date, particularly when a domain name is moved from another ISP. My thanks for your time, My regards, PATRICK J O'BRIEN P.S. === Remember, there are only 4 more days to use the special .nz DNS program. Do take the time to use the program to check out the health of your .nz domain names, http://sc.menandmice.com/getit.html Fax: (04) 473-4569 Voice: (04) 473-4567 Mail: P.O.BRIEN(a)DOMAINZ.NET.NZ Web: http://www.DOMAINZ.NET.NZ --------- 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: Routing problems at clix
by Richard Naylor 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

At 09:28 pm 31/12/99 +1300, you wrote: >On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Joe Abley wrote: >> This is also a singularly bad night to expect anybody to make any >> changes to fix a problem you've been seeing for a week :) > >True, whos up tonight anyway? I've already got 1 radio station ringing me >to tell them if the internet has fallen over at midnight :) > There are 2 of us here at CityLink tidying our email piles, talking over holidays etc. I've been scanning our network thru the day and a few hosts have been removed or are getting slow to respond. We'll be here til around 1 or 2 (when my son gets back from a disco for the ride home). rich richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz This mail message contains information that is confidential and which may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, distribute or copy this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and erase this mail. --------- 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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2000
by Hamish MacEwan 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

Best wishes for 2000 to you. Hamish. PS "except!?" Honestly. -- Any time you get a mouthful of hot soup, the next thing you do will be wrong. -- Zall's Law --------- 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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GMT Passes smoothly
by Arron Scott 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

Well NetGate has also withstood GMT with no hitches in reporting or traffic. Really our only issue was huge outbound traffic last night, other than that all's well. God bless Cisco ... and all who sail in her ;) Arron Scott Telecom NetGate --------- 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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Anyone know of any real issues aside from PSTN congestion?
by Chris Wedgwood 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

Out of curiosity... Does anyone know if any real problems aside form heavy PSTN congestion? Presumably these issues would be also paranoia induced such as perhaps power-spikes cause by everyone testing the lights at 00:01... (perhaps there is an equivalent here with water supply?) So far the publicity I've seen has all be along the lines of `business' as usual -- were/are operators elsewhere in the world made aware of issues such as the PSTN congestion? -cw --------- 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: Routing problems at clix
by Sam Sargeant 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

> True, whos up tonight anyway? NetLink/Telstra have a few of us looking after the rubber band here. If it snaps, then we are ready to spring into action.. (Or to the pub!) Even if things go smoothly, I'm going to be here until 2:30am at least. How long is everyone else going to be working? ##----Sam-Sargeant---------NetLink-Ltd--------Systems-Developer----## until($x>=40){print$"x$x;for('#4V%M','+(%-A<F=E86YT("T`','%($IU<W0`', '(($%N;W1H97(`','.(%!E<FP(a)2&%C:V5R(0H`'){print unpack('u*',$_)}$x+=2} ##.................................................................## --------- 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 '99

31 Dec '99

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Re: Help date<CR>
by Roger De Salis 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

Looks like Richard at Citylink is determined to test early and often for y2k, the last posting was 01/01/00 23.08 in my MUA. (which happens to be Netscape 4.04 and I'm told this is not Y2K compliant by the desktop conformance police at Cisco.) -- \_ Roger De Salis Cisco Systems NZ Ltd </' +64 25 481 452 L3, 117 Customhouse Qy /) +64 4 473 4912 Wellington, New Zealand (/ roger(a)desalis.gen.nz rdesalis(a)cisco.com ` --------- 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: Who's still there?
by Michael Newbery 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

We are still here. No overloading either. (At least, on our local loop). And the cable modems are all still here. With appropriate 1 Jan 2000 log entries. Interesting to watch the paranoids turning their equipment off prior to midnight---you can come back now folks :) --------- 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: Who's still there?
by Geoff Huston 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

At 01:34 AM 1/1/00 +1300, Simon Lyall wrote: >Just got a call from an Australian customer. Apparantly there are rumours >going all over over there (he got a call from someone who got a call etc). >That all the power and the phones over here have died. > >I also have one Australian customer (medium sized ISP) who took themselves >offline for the night. we have not noticed anything abnormal at this point - it must be a pretty small 'medium' isp, as its not overly visible. Geoff Huston Telstra --------- 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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Phew
by Joe Abley 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

Happy new year :) --------- 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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.nz Register
by Patrick O' Brien 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

Hi, FYI -- We've now completed a download from ns99. and conducted some checking on the zone files. Thankfully all seems to be OK My regards, PATRICK J O'BRIEN Fax: (04) 473-4569 Voice: (04) 473-4567 Mail: P.O.BRIEN(a)DOMAINZ.NET.NZ Web: http://www.DOMAINZ.NET.NZ --------- 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: Routing problems at clix
by Simon Lyall 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

Had one little problem so far (weird routing thing, netgate is looking at it), just seems to be a few networks rather than a big thing though. making a huge amount of noise on the alarms though. Hmm, gotta go, time for the fireworks :) -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz System/Network Admin | T&C Enforcement | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz The Internet Group, Auck. | Asst Doorman | Web: Currently Offline --------- 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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NIMS page
by Joe Abley 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

Is it just me, or has the status on the National Incident Monitoring System not been updated since 9pm? Isn't it supposed to be live at 11? -- Ua lawa küpono ka hakahaka pä o këia pä malule --------- 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: Routing problems at clix
by Richard Naylor 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

At 10:55 pm 31/12/99 +1300, Shane Cole wrote: >I'm up tonight with my pc and a couple o laptops. Laptops have mrtg and >netsaint and the pc is good for some quake 3 action :) > >My dining table looks like something out of the matrix :) > It probably IS something out of the Matrix. For those readers who want to have a good moan at the level of connectivity provided by their employer, Shane has 100mbps to his home. Maybe thats why I seem to live in the office. (actually, it IS why my son keeps coming in to the office all the time) rich richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz This mail message contains information that is confidential and which may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, distribute or copy this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and erase this mail. --------- 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: who's up tonight.....
by Roger De Salis 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

Cisco will be here until about 1.30am. Rooting around in the bottom draw (in amongst all the orders), I have a copy tftpboot.com for MSDOS 3.2, just in case anyone gets really desperate..... runs on any 286 :-) This makes rubber bands look sophisticated.... -- \_ Roger De Salis Cisco Systems NZ Ltd </' +64 25 481 452 L3, 117 Customhouse Qy /) +64 4 473 4912 Wellington, New Zealand (/ roger(a)desalis.gen.nz rdesalis(a)cisco.com ` --------- 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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Routing problems at clix
by Richard Stevenson 30 Dec '99

30 Dec '99

Hiya Anyone know who I should ask about routing problems somewhere at CLIX, or maybe Netgate.net.nz? I haven't been able to connect from here to parnassus.pmail.gen.nz (192.156.225.2) for about a week, but I can get to it from the States (risc.ua.edu) They connect to CLIX via Pacific Networks (pacific.co.nz). All my traceroutes from parnassus.pmail.gen.nz to here die somewhere inside CLIX (203.167.244.161). Traceroutes from here go via Netlink to Telstra (Auckland, Sydney), NetGate, then die inside a netblock that InterNIC believe belongs to the Wellington School of Medicine. If anyone would like to see the outputs, just give me a yell. I'll be watching tonight :-) FWIW, pmail.gen.nz changed their upstream about a week ago. Cheers Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Stevenson Systems Engineer, Information Technology Services Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 4635051 Fax: +64 4 4635552 Being a Unix system administrator is like being a tech in a biological warfare laboratory, except that none of the substances are labeled consistently, any of the compounds are just as likely to kill you by themselves as they are when mixed with one another, and it is never clear what distinction is made between a catastrophic failure in the lab and a successful test in the field. (--M. Tiemann) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- 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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Domainz holiday hours of operation
by Patrick O'Brien 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

NZNOG list members, The Domainz website has now been updated with details on the holiday hours of operation, covering four key areas 1. Customer Enquiries 2. Domain name registrations 3. Urgent Issues 4. Keeping in touch which can be found at http://www.domainz.net.nz/newsstand/hoursofoperation.html Finally, from the team at Domainz for the holiday season, Best wishes My Regards Maria Arnott (Posted on behalf of) --------- 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: ORBS block
by Olof Olsson 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

> > > CLEAR/CLEAR Net is _not_ using ORBS. We are being scanned > as you are > > > though... > > > > Snap for Netlink/Telstra. > > For what it's worth, neither does Actrix, although we are constantly > scanned and have often found ourselves blocked with little or no > warning! > Ditto. We have been "blocked" a couple of times due to customers having open relays. Funny, we always get the ORBS notification around 4pm on Friday afternoons... Must be a coincidince... --Olof --------- 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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ns99.waikato.ac.nz
by Simon Lyall 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

Hmm ping times to it just went to about 4 seconds, 80% packet loss. It's still answering name queries but it's a bit of a worry. Hopefully if it's a real problem Domainz will fix it when they get back to work :( -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz System/Network Admin | T&C Enforcement | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz The Internet Group, Auck. | Asst Doorman | Web: Currently Offline --------- 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: ORBS block
by Olof Olsson 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

> I'm not sure who the "we" concerned is but I see requests > from a particular > netblock maintained by a particular admin who just happens to > host the ORBS > site going through our network ranges on a regular basis... > anyway, the > point of my post, does anyone in NZ actually use the ORBS > database on there > mail servers (aside from the obvious) as a spam blocking > tool? XTRA, IHUG, > ICONZ, Clear, Voyager?? > CLEAR/CLEAR Net is _not_ using ORBS. We are being scanned as you are though... --Olof --------- 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: ORBS block - Forwarded
by Donald Neal 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

From: James Bell <jrb(a)wibble.net> Subject: RE: ORBS block In-Reply-To: <NDBBINFAOBJJKEKGNMGCCEPCDFAA.shane.cole(a)staff.paradise.net .nz> References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9912211535460.26661-100000(a)mailhost.manawatu.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >point of my post, does anyone in NZ actually use the ORBS database on there >mail servers (aside from the obvious) as a spam blocking tool? XTRA, IHUG, >ICONZ, Clear, Voyager? Voyager doesn't. I'd be interested to know how many of ORBS sub-scribers do so becuase its easier to subscribe than to fix their customer's open relays. --------- 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: ORBS block (fwd)
by Robert Hunt 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

Jamie, To me the notion that ORBS is "attacking" is obviously specious.. so one goes on to wonder why Dean Anderson's message carries any appearance of credibility.. Hopefully whatever merit you see in Dean Anderson's message is soon run to ground by a little net research. That research will show that Dean Anderson is well known for "imaginative and persistent postings" and got himself kicked out of spam-l and spamtools, etc.. and that he features in a list of Net Kooks. Alan Brown /ORBS is assisting the FBI in some respects.. yes. Dean Anderson assisting the FBI? ... as a weapon of irritation perhaps :-) if you have some ideas on what would reduce the frequency of his "helpful" calls ... they might like to hear from you :-) Robert Hunt --------- 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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