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Domain registration scammers
by LRW Longhurst 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi all, Sorry, and "beer" because this is more of an Aussie question, maybe someone can direct me to somewhere more appropriate. One of our execs received one of those "domain name available" letters in the form of an invoice, inviting him to register a name in .net.au that's similar to another name we own. This seems to have come via snail-mail but it invites payment at domainnamegroup.com.au. Do we do anything about such scammers? Suing them for wasting our time springs to mind, but I'm thinking more in terms of reporting to an authority. I know this practice has been around for a while but it's the first time I've encountered it directly. -- Lesley Longhurst (previously Walker) Linux Systems Administrator Opus International Consultants Ltd Email lesley.longhurst(a)opus.co.nz Tel +64 4 471 7002, Fax +64 4 473 3017 http://www.opus.co.nz Level 9 Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street, PO Box 12 343 Wellington, New Zealand

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Need C2T breakout cable in sky tower kinda urgent
by Alexander Neilson 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Hey Everyone Beer, as required (and a big beer - or drink of choice - for my saviour) I am up working in our racks in sky tower and was doing a scheduled reboot of a server to move some power cables. Now the machine won’t complete booting and I suspect the CMOS battery may have died and the complete removal of power has lost the cmos settings stopping at least part of the boot cycle. I have a keyboard, mouse and screen here but it seems to use a C2D breakout cable to connect up to what looks like a larger than normal DVI port. Does anyone have a cable to get a standard VGA monitor signal out of an IBM eServer xSeries 335 machine anywhere in auckland (nearer sky tower the better) and even better if I can come grab it now. It seems to be one of two adapters I don’t have in my kit with me (this will be fixed) but any white knights would be really appreciated. Regards Alexander Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited alexander(a)neilson.net.nz 021 329 681 022 456 2326

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Request for IPv4 /23
by Daniel Watson 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

G'day Noggers Thought i would bring this topic back alive as we are still actively looking for a /24 preferably even a /23 but at good pricing. If you have available space your willing to sell at a good price, I'd love to hear from you Even if you have space you would be willing to lease/rent I'd like to hear from you TIA Daniel

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Who's fibre?
by Paul Adshead 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

A new fibre install has just showed up in a shared basement riser. It's currently not connected and no-one in the building is claiming it's theirs. The only identifying mark (written in pen on electrical tape) is "VS-42xxx" (xxx are numbers). Would anyone know which fibre company tags their new installs with labels in this format? We've been told fibre would be unavailable for years at this location, so would really like to get a circuit from that cable, if I only knew who to call.... Thanks Paul Adshead

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Re: [nznog] Who's fibre?
by Stu Fleming 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Jon Brewer: "That's hilarious. There's always a receptionist with keys to the basement or pabx room that will give up keys without asking questions if you've got an orange vest and a decent looking id card." That rules out Chorus then. They can't install anything in a shared building without a 90-day lead time and a mountain of consent paperwork. Also the procedure for obtaining a roof key is slightly more complex as it usually involves the receptionist first a) checking that you are in a happy, smiling mood and b) cautioning you sternly to "make sure you don't fall off"

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Multi-homing without PI space
by Richard Hulse 29 Nov '13

29 Nov '13

Very late to the party... Matthew, if you want to contact me off list I'd be happy to share our experience with becoming an AS, multi-homing, anycast, self-hosting and anything else you might find useful. Cheers, Richard Radio New Zealand Disclaimer Emails sent by Radio New Zealand Limited (RNZ) or any related entity, including any attachments, may be confidential, protected by copyright and/or subject to privilege. If you receive an email from RNZ in error, please inform the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not use, copy or disclose any of the information in that email for any purpose. Emails to/from RNZ may undergo email filtering and virus scanning, including by third party contractors. However, RNZ does not guarantee that any email or any attachment is secure, error-free or free of viruses or other unwanted or unexpected inclusions. The views expressed in any non-business email are not necessarily the views of RNZ www.radionz.co.nz<http://www.radionz.co.nz>

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NZ download speed improvement
by Nicholas Lee 28 Nov '13

28 Nov '13

http://www.pcworld.co.nz/article/483086/new_zealand_ranks_43rd_online_downl… 25 May, 2010 "It found that over the past 30 days, Kiwis testing their connections on its two source sites recorded average *download speeds of 5.96 Mbit/s*. When it came to upload speeds, New Zealand ranked 42nd, with an average speed of 1.3 Mbit/s." There seems to have been a reasonable improvement: http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/ 42 New Zealand - 17.02 Mbps 49 Australia - 14.23 Mbps High density fibre installations like they have in HK would be nice: 1. Hong Kong - 71.01 Mbps Nicholas

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Re: [nznog] Advertising /32 externally via BGP
by Tony Wicks 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

You need a high metric null route for that /32. Liam Farr <liamfarr(a)me.com> wrote: >Hi,I'verunintoabitofadumbproblem,hopefullysomeoneherecanpointmeintherightdirection.Ireceivearoutetoa/28fromamemberofmyBGPconfederation,(the/28isonadirectlyconnectedinterfaceofthisrouter)viaBGPtooneofmyedgerouters,andIwishtoadvertiseaspecific/32fromthis/28toanexternalBGPpeer(upstreamprovider)fromthisedgerouter.Icanuseroute-mapsandprefix-lists,todefineaBGPexportpolicytoonlyexportthe/32totheexternalneighborwithoutissue.WhereIgetstuckisgettingthe/32intomyroutetable,essentiallyIneedtode-aggregatethe/28downtoa/32?Isthereanaccepted"bestpractice"wayofdoingthis?Apologiesifthisisastupidquestion,I'veneverrunintothisissuebefore,andGoogleisn'tgivingmemuchhelp.CheersLiamFarr

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Advertising /32 externally via BGP
by Liam Farr 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Hi, I've run into a bit of a dumb problem, hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. I receive a route to a /28 from a member of my BGP confederation, (the /28 is on a directly connected interface of this router) via BGP to one of my edge routers, and I wish to advertise a specific /32 from this /28 to an external BGP peer (upstream provider) from this edge router. I can use route-maps and prefix-lists, to define a BGP export policy to only export the /32 to the external neighbor without issue. Where I get stuck is getting the /32 into my route table, essentially I need to de-aggregate the /28 down to a /32? Is there an accepted "best practice" way of doing this? Apologies if this is a stupid question, I've never run into this issue before, and Google isn't giving me much help. Cheers Liam Farr

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Orcon contact
by Geraint Jones 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Can someone from orcin please contact me off list. Thanks

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