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Is content getting "closer"?
by Jed Laundry 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Hey, The AWS Sydney region has been available for 5 months now and, since it became available, the chatter about the importance of another wet string for competitive reasons has gone (mostly) quiet. Are these events correlated? Is content getting closer (and by that I mean avg(rtt) over a large sample of connections)? Has anyone done an internal study of their transit? Does WAND have a dataset they're analysing? Thanks, Jed.

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NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website
by Jonathan Brewer 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Hi All, Two months ago we had a conference in Wellington. Since then the website has still not been updated to reflect the programme on the day. Previous conference websites have disappeared from the Internet. I understand the trustees have funds at their disposal, and I call on them to take one of the following actions: 1.) Hire someone to sort out the site 2.) Find someone who will do it for free 3.) (or) step down and appoint someone who cares Sorry guys, I like you as people, but your performance here has been abysmal. Fix it please. If you don't want to do anything, I put my hand up for taking over a trustee seat. -JB

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Re: [nznog] notable events
by Michael NEWBERY 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

On 8/04/13 12:55 PM, "Don Stokes" <don(a)daedalus.co.nz> wrote: >Definitely. > >Ethernet in particular, but cellphones too, have changed beyond all >recognition. Bob Metcalfe's Ethernet ran at 3 Mbps, over a single thick >co-axial cable, with shared access via CSMA/CD, Carrier Sense, Multiple >Access with Collision Detection, with Manchester encoding to run the >same bits per second as the fundamental frequency. > >From memory, it's actually HALF the fundamental frequency. I.e., 3Mbps required 6MHz. That's because bits are signaled by transitions. The advantage is that it's self clocking. -- Michael Newbery IP Architect IT&P: Architecture Vodafone New Zealand Ltd. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless otherwise stated, any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Vodafone New Zealand Limited.

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[::] APNIC IPv6 Workshop AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND 6-8 MAY 2013
by Elly Tawhai 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Hi NZNOG Community, APNIC is pleased to announce that we will be conducting the following training course in AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. Course: IPv6 Workshop (3 days) Dates: MAY 6 - 8, 2013 Venue: Level 3, 110 Symonds Street CallPlus Business Centre Auckland CBD, New Zealand For registration and course information, please go to: http://training.apnic.net/events/2013/workshop-ipv6-6may13 If you have any queries please contact <training(a)apnic.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ APNIC Training training(a)apnic.net Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61-7-3858-3100 PO Box 3646 Fax: +61-7-3858-3199 6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia http://www.apnic.net/training ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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notable events
by Richard Naylor 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

According to some media the cell phone turns 40 this month. EE Times has some articles on it or Google Marty Cooper. 22 May is the 40th for Ethernet - when Robert Metcalf wrote his memo outlining ethernet to his Boss. Both sound like good reasons for more beer.

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public consultation on root zone KSK rollover
by Joe Abley 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hi all, As advised a month or so ago, the following public comment period is open: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/root-zone-consultation-08mar13-… We have received a small number of responses which are accessible from that page. The topic at hand and the specific questions that have been asked as part of the consultation are important ones; the decisions taken will have operational consequences to any user of the Internet who validates DNS responses with DNSSEC. If you have experience, opinions or expertise to contribute, it would be greatly appreciated. The window for being able to submit comments closes on 12 April 2013 at 23:59 UTC. Many thanks, Joe

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Re: [nznog] NZNOG Digest, Vol 124, Issue 2
by Alan Maher 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

I also observe AusNOG, where there is a considerable amount of discussion (sometimes superfluous) and a great reporting system for network outages and so on. And now they have a page for the sale of surplus equipment. Along with some great direct recruitment stuff, that probably never makes the*popular press*. Surely this is a measure of an active community of interest. Activity levels on NZNOG have been somewhat muted in recent times. Does this imply that everything is fine and dandy, and the pills are working quite well, thank you? I will open an alternative discussion to try and break the ice-jam. Can anyone give me some best experience on a cost effective/IPV6 capable consumer router, aside from a Fritz box? Are the PACE boxes from Telecom/Chorus any good? Do they do IPV6? They seem to do almost anything, judging by their tech spin. ADSL/VDSL/Fibre etc. Lets get some debate going people. Alan Maher On 2/04/2013 12:00 p.m., nznog-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz wrote: > Send NZNOG mailing list submissions to > nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nznog-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nznog-owner(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of NZNOG digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Jonathan Brewer) > 2. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (jamie baddeley) > 3. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Andy Linton) > 4. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Stephen Sheehan) > 5. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Daniel Richards) > 6. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Juha Saarinen) > 7. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Peter Mott) > 8. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Ian Batterbee) > 9. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Tim Hoffman) > 10. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Tim Price) > 11. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Jay Daley) > 12. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Michael Fincham) > 13. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Joe Abley) > 14. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Sam Sargeant) > 15. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Richard Naylor) > 16. Re: NZNOG Trustees: Act on NZNOG Website (Joel Wir?mu Pauling) > > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

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route servers
by Blair Harrison 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Hello List In order to create some discussion (as Andy seems to think there isn't any) .. I note that using regexp ^ as an option on the ape/wix/chix/hix route servers looking glass no longer gives a full list of routes.. it seems somewhat truncated. At some point in the past it gave a full list, but perhaps now the number of routes has exceeded the limit set on the software? It would be appreciated if this could be adjusted so that I (and anyone else who might be interested) might continue my academic musings on the state of the routing table :) Cheers, Blair

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NZNOG 2013 live stream
by Kris Price 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Is there going to be a live stream of the conference somewhere? I couldn't find mention of one on the website. Thanks Kris

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Alcatel-Lucent cable ship in port
by Kris Price 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

I noticed there was an Alcatel-Lucent cable ship in Wellington. Anyone got a clue on what this might be related to? Some new cable being laid in NZ waters or is it just stopping by? Cheers Kris

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iconz ipv6?
by Blair Harrison 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Hi guys, Anyone else having issues getting to ICONZ's IPV6 nameservers? Blair:~ blair$ dig iconz.co.nz @2405:6000:2:1::1 ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> iconz.co.nz @2405:6000:2:1::1 ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached Blair:~ blair$ dig iconz.co.nz @2405:6000:2:2::1 ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> iconz.co.nz @2405:6000:2:2::1 ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached --- 2405:6000:2:1::1 ping6 statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss ICONZ - if you're publishing ipv6 glue, you might want to make sure it works... Also, the glue you're publishing seems to be different to your AAAA records for ns1/ns2 ?? ...... ns_name_01: ns1.iconz.co.nz ns_ip6_01: 2405:6000:2:3::1 ns_name_02: ns2.iconz.co.nz ns_ip6_02: 2405:6000:2:2::2 Might want to fix that.. or at the very least revoke your ipv6 glue, if you aren't going to make your ipv6 work properly? Cheers, Blair

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The Internet research botnet
by Juha Saarinen 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

A friend sent a link this morning to what appeared to be the usual dry research stuff but as the coffee kicked in, my jaw dropped. Here's the story I wrote: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/337259,researcher-builds-enormous-global-botn… There was an earlier mass-compromise of DSL routers in Brazil: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/317529,millions-of-dsl-modems-hacked-in-brazi… Would I be right in assuming that the vulnerable devices situation is similar in NZ and Australia? Hei konā mai, -- Juha Saarinen AITTP Twitter: juhasaarinen http://juha.saarinen.org

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Videos from NZNOG 2013
by Richard Naylor 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Videos from NZNOG 2013 are now available at http://www.r2.co.nz/20130124/ early viewers will find a slow response time while the videos load into the CDN. Our uplink capacity is currently maxed out with other users. Once loaded the files will play fine from the CDN. The videos can also be downloaded. As there was no printed programme that listed all speakers correctly, we've had to guess on some names and titles. Please think of this as a crowd sourcing task and advise me of any corrections. We may also be missing a speaker as there doesn't seem to be a complete list. If you want a file REALLY badly, try a download with a twist. Get the URL from the web page and change it to use www.r2.co.nz instead of 2012.r2.co.nz, which is the CDN. The origin server is peered on WIX and should perform well locally. The reason for using an international CDN is that even NZNOG gets more viewers from outside NZ than inside NZ., which is why we are always working on getting better quality in presentations. You folks are famous internationally. Rich

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Can anyone recommend a DNS registrar?
by Lloyd Parkes 17 Mar '13

17 Mar '13

Hi all, With Swizzlestick closing down I need to find a new DNS registrar, and my shortlist from http://dnc.org.nz//story/authorised-registrars is still pretty long. I require IPv6 glue and a self service web interface, but I don't need any hosting. I have an irrationally strong desire to deal with a NZ based company and I don't want to deal with a company that only seems to know how to sell xDSL. That latter point is the one I need the most help with. If keeping the DNS running isn't operational enough for the list charter, then "beer". Cheers, Lloyd

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Beer
by Jamie Baddeley 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Citylink is hiring! http://www.citylink.co.nz/network-engineer Would appreciate it if you folks could pass this on to anyone who might be interested.. We've an open mind on the kind of person. Could be 5yrs+ experience, could be fresh out of varsity etc. Do want someone from (or aspires to be from) the design end of engineering rather than operations end of engineering…MPLS experience nice to have, SDN/Openflow interest nice to have… There's some cool developments going on. Maybe you or someone you know could be a part of that. cheers jamie

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Completely non-operational but Obi Wan you're my only hope.
by Geraint Jones 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Like I say completely non-operational. We are in desperate need of some licensing for an old Nortel Contivity 17x0. If anyone out there maybe has a set of keys for one they have retired we would like to hear from you, or maybe you know someone in the IT salvage world who may be able to help. Any ideas would be most welcome. We have pots of gold on offer or beer (now its operational) Thanks for your time!

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WellyLUG rekindling
by Hugh Davenport 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Hey, Some of you may know me, and some may not. My name is Hugh, I used to work at Catalyst IT, and have recently moved to Aura RedEye Security as the development manager. I have a big interest in the open source world, and have been meaning on getting WellyLUG set up again for a while now... WellyLUG is/was the Wellington Linux Users Group, which ran monthly, but hasn't happened in a while. This email is just to get a sense of who would be interested in starting up meetings again, and what days suit everyone. Also, if you can help sponsor a room/beer/pizza etc, that would be good as well, though I may be able to get that covered on my front. So, if you are keen, reply :D Cheers, Hugh original message at http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/pipermail/wellylug/2013-March/020972.html

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ntp.net.nz update
by Jay Daley 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

Hi A brief update on the status of our public NTP service. For those of you unaware of this service then details are at http://ntp.net.net - We have new firmware on the boxes that fixes previous IPv6 issues so ntp1.ntp.net.nz and ntp3 are now properly accessible over IPv6. ntp2 has a provider IPv6 issue that is still waiting to be fixed. - We believe this firmware also fixes the autokey issues but we are still testing that before enabling it. - Currently each server independently takes its reference time from differential GPS, which is very slightly different from official NZ time. We spoken to the people from IRL responsible for official NZ time and we have agreed a long term plan that will see the differences between GPS and NZ time sent directly to our servers from the IRL atomic clocks, which will condition our servers very close to official NZ time. - We're considering adding one more server to the network, definitely not a Symmetricom this time. We've spoken to Tekron International, a Lower Hutt company who make GPS timing kit about possibly using one of their products but are still researching alternatives. We hardly ever get any feedback on this service and so assume it is working fine, but now's your chance to tell us what you think or if there is anything more we could be doing to make this service more beneficial. cheers Jay -- Jay Daley Chief Executive .nz Registry Services (New Zealand Domain Name Registry Limited) desk: +64 4 931 6977 mobile: +64 21 678840 linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jaydaley

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NZ ISP level rate limiting to Office365
by Blair Robson 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

Hiyas, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask...but I want to know if ISPs are setting any rules around upload traffic to office365? At the moment I'm just looking for a route....any route that is going to give me more than 60k up... (the most common is 40k...) Tried Orcon, Vodafone, HD and getting either 40k rated or 60k rated upload speed to Office 365. If this is the wrong place, can anyone suggest somewhere more appropriate? (already talking to Microsoft) Thanks Blair Robson I Engineer I Maclean Ph: 09 950 2592 Fx: 09 369 1560 Wb: maclean.co.nz<http://www.maclean.co.nz/> Level 2, 25 Union St, Auckland 1010 PO Box 90 400, Victoria St West, Auckland 1142 [cid:image001.gif(a)01CE1BE5.C23447F0] [cid:image002.png(a)01CE1BE5.C23447F0]<http://www.linkedin.com/companies/maclean-computing?trk=copro_tab> Attention: This email message and/or attachment may contain information that is confidential and subject to privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender, delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Maclean Email & Web Security Service ______________________________________________________________________

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public consultation on root zone KSK rollover
by Joe Abley 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Hi all, The following ICANN public comment period opened today: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/root-zone-consultation-08mar13-… The questions relate to DNSSEC rollover in the root zone, and hence are relevant to anybody doing DNSSEC validation. Your responses to the questions presented above would be most welcome. Please feel very free to pass on the link to anybody you think might be interested in this topic. Joe

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PCAP of APE issues last night?
by Tim Hoffman 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Greetings all, Following last night's issues on the APE, Dylan and I were wondering wondering if any APE participants managed to take a pcap of the traffic they were seeing on their interfaces facing the exchange. If any of you did and are willing to share this would be incredibly useful to us - drop us a message off-list. Many thanks, Tim

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Re: [nznog] [AusNOG] IPv4 - Where is the training?
by Elly Tawhai 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi Don, There is not currently any APNIC IPv6 training scheduled for Christchurch. However we will be conducting an IPv6 Workshop in Auckland, which will be held on 6 - 8 May. For more information and registration please visit: http://training.apnic.net/events/2013/workshop-ipv6-6may13 If you have any queries please contact <training(a)apnic.net> (apologies for cross list posting thought this maybe of interest to those on NZNOG list) Kind regards, Elly APNIC Don Gould wrote: > On 5/03/2013 4:23 p.m., jason andrade wrote: >> From: Elly Tawhai <elly(a)apnic.net> >> To: "ausnog(a)ausnog.net" <ausnog(a)ausnog.net> >> Subject: [AusNOG] [::] APNIC IPv6 Workshop BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA 13-15 >> Mar 2013 >> > Thanks. Sorry, I missed seeing a post about APNIC running the some > training in Christchurch? > > Have they been running this sort of training in all the smaller centres > like Christchurch, around the region? > > D >

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IPv6 peering at APE
by Sid Jones 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

There is quite a significant disparity between the number of active peers on the two APE IPv6 route servers. [ You can see this at http://nzix.net/cgi-bin/lg.cgi ] e.g. There are 68 IPv6 peers configured on both the route servers. I see 44 established IPv6 peering sessions on rs1.ape.nzix.net, yet only 24 sessions on rs2.ape.nzix.net. If we can assist in anyway to get more of these sessions established please let us know.

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Best local presentation at NZNOG2013
by Gerard Creamer 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Hi all, Thanks to everyone who came to NZNOG last week, it was great to have you all there. And thanks to all of you who helped out, and especially to all of our sponsors. This year we added an incentive to local presenters - the best local presentation would win travel and accommodation to APRICOT in Singapore and a complementary registration. The paper would be submitted to the APRICOT programme comittee and the winner might get to present at the event. There was quite a lot of discussion about who should win, and we have selected Donald Love's presentation on UFB Realities as the best local presentation at NZNOG 2013 for it's combination of technically interesting content and 'good honest truth' delivery. Congratulations to Donald and a big thank you to all of our local presenters for the interesting and engaging presentations. If you have something technically interesting worth sharing start planning your submission for NZNOG 2014 now :^) NZNOG 2014 will be held January 27-31 2014 in Nelson, New Zealand, and a Call for Papers will be issued to this list later in the year. Cheers, Gerard

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Re: [nznog] [AusNOG] IPv4 - Where is the training?
by Don Gould 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Karl, If we can have 50 posts about 23 IP phones on list, then I'm sure some discussion about IPv6 training can be endured even if there are parties with a commercial interest. I am interested and I wonder how many more folk in my area would also be interested (Christchurch) hence why I've copied the NZNOG in as well. What the discussion over the past few days has highlighted for me is I clearly don't know enough and if the messages in my inbox are anything to go by, then there must be others in the same boat. I'd like to understand what the training I need might cost me. How much people think I need to invest in myself to get myself on track. I'd be interested to hear from others, on or off list who might also be interested in some more help to get up to v6 speed. D On 5/03/2013 4:35 p.m., Karl Auer wrote: > Hi Don. This message is not to the list, but you should feel free to > quote it there if you wish. I hope you will not interpret it as spam. > I specialise in IPv6, and I specialise in IPv6 training - see > www.into6.com.au. Let me know if you are interested. It is > comprehensive, highly customisable and I would be happy to do a > workshop (where we get down and just do some stuff in your network for > a few hours). Or we could set up a network together - whatever you > want or need. I'm also happy to come to New Zealand, especially if you > can get a few other people together. and I use a Mikrotik in my SOHO > network :-) >> If I find it over whelming, then I wonder how many others are in the >> same boat? > Lots. I've trained over 300 people in the last few years. But think of > it this way - if you had had to absorb all of IPv4 at once, that would > have been overwhelming too! Luckily 90% of IPv6 is the same as IPv4 - > you don't need to relearn it, you just need to recognise it. > >> How do we trim all this down to subsets that I actually need to know >> just to operate? > Our courses concentrate on concepts that you can apply to any hardware, > any network. We don't teacj Cisco, Juniper or Mikrotik, we teach IPv6. > >> This needs to be in 20 pages, not the 200+ that you just linked. > Wellll... for a home network maybe. Just. > >> I need pictures. I use a GUI configuration tool, not CLI. > You'll be amazed how little needs configuring. A few router interfaces - > if you have a GUI, it should be able to do IPv6. Then it's just a case > of knowing what to configure, and our courses leave you confidently > knowing that. > > Regards, K. > -- Don Gould 31 Acheson Ave Mairehau Christchurch, New Zealand Ph: + 64 3 348 7235 Mobile: + 64 21 114 0699

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