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Conference Updates
by Richard Nelson 05 Mar '26

05 Mar '26

* This year is now the most popular NZNOG conference by far. Previously the largest NZNOG was 199 conference registrations (2025). This year we already have 236. Registrations are currently capped at 250 but we are talking to the venue and may raise this slightly. * The 30 years of RADIUS in 3 hours presentation on Wednesday had sold out. We have changed the room and been able to add a few more spaces. * A second JetEX Flight Sim - Post NZNOG event has been added since the first one had sold out. * All but two of the talk descriptions are now on the website. Talk submissions have been well ahead of previous years. See https://www.nznog.org/conferences/nznog-2026/talks Richard Nelson, for NZNOG Trust

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Fwd: [dns-operations] OARC 46 Call for Contributions
by Felipe Barbosa 22 Feb '26

22 Feb '26

Forwarding on behalf of OARC. -- Ngā mihi Felipe Agnelli Barbosa DNS Specialist InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa We are the home of .nz and we work for an Internet that benefits all of Aotearoa. www.internetnz.nz GPG: 95C1 8BDC EFA7 9CAC 303D 003E A058 2449 D152 8580 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Cathy Almond <cathya(a)isc.org> Date: Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 3:31 PM Subject: [dns-operations] OARC 46 Call for Contributions To: <dns-operations(a)lists.dns-oarc.net> This workshop will be a hybrid event. Date - 16-17 May 2026 Location - Edinburgh, Scotland Times - approximately 09:00-16:00 UTC (Local time BST is UTC +1 ) Adjacent to - RIPE 92 (18 - 22 May 2026, https://ripe92.ripe.net/) Deadline for Submissions - 2026-03-06 23:59 UTC https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/56/abstracts/ All DNS-related subjects and discussion topics are welcome although we're particularly keen to hear more about operational and security related experiences, best practices and practical advice; both for newcomers to the DNS arena and those who have been around for longer who want to learn more about new features and opportunities to improve resilience, security and privacy. (These topics we think will complement the usual high-quality data-based research submissions we always hope to receive!) If you have something interesting to share with the community that lies outside of the focus above, please don't be put off - if it's good, we'll be happy to include it. If you'd like to offer a talk, but are not quite sure what to pick, here's a non-exhaustive list of ideas: 1. Operations & Deployment - Configuration management, deployment processes, and interoperability experiences. - Tools, tips, and making effective use of DNS software features. 2. Performance, Resilience & Scaling - Provisioning, load-balancing, and planning for resilience. - DNS performance management, efficiency improvements, and metrics. - Monitoring infrastructure: log pipelines, analytics, and anomaly detection. 3. Security, Privacy & Policy - DoS attacks, DNS abuse, DNSSEC signing and validation. - Privacy considerations, for example: encrypted transport, qname minimization, data anonymization. - Relevant global and regional policies, legislation, and compliance. 4. Research & Innovation - Data-driven testing, measurement, and analysis. - New protocols, protocol extensions, and next-generation namespace management. 5. Lessons & Learnings - Outage experiences, recovery stories, and cautionary tales For further details please see https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc46 Cathy Almond, for the DNS-OARC Programme Committee _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations(a)lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations

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West Auckland fibre outage
by Paul Adshead 21 Feb '26

21 Feb '26

Does anyone have any insights into the huge West Auckland fibre outage? Area concerned, appears to be: Te Atatu - Piha - Helensville. Indicative fix time of 24h, means something substantial happened. Paul Adshead

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InternetNZ - DNSSEC ZSK Standby Chain Rollover
by Felipe Barbosa 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

InternetNZ will begin a DNSSEC Zone Signing Key rollover in our current standby chain. This should not affect the active chain used in DNS resolution for .nz. The status and scheduling will be posted to status.internetnz.nz. This will consist of two maintenance windows, in each window we will pause zone distribution to make changes, perform validation, and resume zone distribution for the following zones: nz, ac.nz, co.nz, cri.nz, geek.nz, gen.nz, govt.nz, health.nz, iwi.nz, kiwi.nz, maori.nz, mil.nz, net.nz, org.nz, parliament.nz, and school.nz The first change window is on the following link: https://status.internetnz.nz/incidents/dj76bh55sq04 For questions or issues please contact registry(a)internetnz.net.nz, for updates please subscribe to the IRS Production > Zone Publish component of status.internetnz.nz -- Ngā mihi Felipe Agnelli Barbosa DNS Specialist InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa We are the home of .nz and we work for an Internet that benefits all of Aotearoa. www.internetnz.nz GPG: 95C1 8BDC EFA7 9CAC 303D 003E A058 2449 D152 8580

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NZNOG 2026 registration now open
by NZNOG 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

NZNOG 2026 registration is now open. We have some great tutorials this year - BGP operations by Philip Smith from NSRC, RADIUS by Alan DeKok, and Containerlabs by the Nokia folks. Last year we did a social thing on the Friday which we are repeating with a couple of options. We recommend getting accomodation sorted soon - as Christchurch can fill up suddenly. We have had some great talks proposed so far which will be going up on the talks page soon, and are keen for more. If you've done an interesting project, had an interesting fault, or have some ideas you want to share, please submit! Don't just leave the talks to the "big" operators and vendors, we are keen to hear from everyone. Info for all of the above is on the website. Registration: https://nznog-2026.lilregie.com/ Conference website: https://www.nznog.org/conferences/nznog-2026 -- Nathan Ward on behalf of the NZNOG team

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InternetNZ .nz DNSSEC KSK Standby Chain Rollover
by Felipe Barbosa 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

InternetNZ will begin a DNSSEC Key Signing Key rollover in our current standby chain. This should not affect the active chain used in DNS resolution for .nz. The status and scheduling will be posted to status.internetnz.nz. This will consist of three maintenance windows. In each window, we will pause zone distribution to make changes, perform validation, and resume zone distribution for the following zones: nz, ac.nz, co.nz, cri.nz, geek.nz, gen.nz, govt.nz, health.nz, iwi.nz, kiwi.nz, maori.nz, mil.nz, net.nz, org.nz, parliament.nz, and school.nz The first maintenance window will be: https://status.internetnz.nz/incidents/0rf46mdh9tdv For questions or issues, please contact registry(a)internetnz.net.nz. For updates, please subscribe to the IRS Production > Zone Publish component of status.internetnz.nz -- Ngā mihi Felipe Agnelli Barbosa DNS Specialist InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa We are the home of .nz and we work for an Internet that benefits all of Aotearoa. www.internetnz.nz GPG: 95C1 8BDC EFA7 9CAC 303D 003E A058 2449 D152 8580

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InternetNZ - DNSSEC ZSK Standby Chain Rollover
by Felipe Barbosa 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

InternetNZ will begin a DNSSEC Zone Signing Key rollover in our current standby chain. This should not affect the active chain used in DNS resolution for .nz. The status and scheduling will be posted to status.internetnz.nz. This will consist of two maintenance windows, in each window we will pause zone distribution to make changes, perform validation, and resume zone distribution for the following zones: nz, ac.nz, co.nz, cri.nz, geek.nz, gen.nz, govt.nz, health.nz, iwi.nz, kiwi.nz, maori.nz, mil.nz, net.nz, org.nz, parliament.nz, and school.nz The first change window is on the following link: https://status.internetnz.nz/incidents/6yjnwkgnnkvf For questions or issues please contact registry(a)internetnz.net.nz, for updates please subscribe to the IRS Production > Zone Publish component of status.internetnz.nz -- Ngā mihi Felipe Agnelli Barbosa DNS Specialist InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa We are the home of .nz and we work for an Internet that benefits all of Aotearoa. www.internetnz.nz GPG: 95C1 8BDC EFA7 9CAC 303D 003E A058 2449 D152 8580

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Minimizing the BGP Flap Storm risk in NZ ... can I ask a favor?
by Barry Greene 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Hi Team, Some know me, some don’t. I’m asking as someone who has been around BGP security/resiliency for a while. We have a risk in the industry that we can all prevent - by deploying the BGP session security tools whenever we configure BGP sessions. Our Problem: We have ~274,000 BGP sessions open to anyone in the world who wishes to initiate a low-level DDoS attack to disrupt the BGP session. New Zealand currently has ~470 open BGP sessions. The Risk: A BGP Session knockdown risk model exists that can target an organization, an ISP, a whole country, or the entire Internet. Is this a serious risk? About a year ago, I conducted a Shadowserver Ops review with one of the major US broadband companies. I shared with my peers working there that they had ~60 BGP IPv6 sessions open to the risk (no iACLs, no ACL on the device, no control plane protection, no GTSM, etc). They have been part of tabletop exercises where “BGP Flap Storm” was used as one of the plays. Once informed, they resolved the issue within 40 minutes through an emergency ACL deployment. The ask: Deploy the basics of BGP Session Security on all your existing BGP Sessions. Talk to your peers on the other side of the BGP session to fix their BGP Session security (remember, BGP session re-establishment could happen from either side). Update your processes, procedures, and SCRIPTs to include BGP Session security (one of my theories is that people are using scripts to deploy that are not complete). If you need a complete breakdown of which routers on your network have their BGP session open, take the simple route and sign up for the Daily Shadowserver reports on your network. They are free for you. I’ve locked down many ISPs’ security risks just by using the Shadowserver reports. Just go to this link to subscribe: https://www.shadowserver.org/what-we-do/network-reporting/get-reports/ Sincerely, Barry Greene Old Security Geek WhatsApp/Signal +1 408 218 4669. PS - I’m asking this just in New Zealand right now because I live here (now) and wondering if we could knock out this risk …. Or is the potential of a BGP Flap Storm knocking out Telecom something we have to just live with? Resources to Review Shadowserver Dashboard Global https://dashboard.shadowserver.org/statistics/combined/time-series/?date_ra… Shodan Global BGP Dashboard https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=product%3Abgp+port%3A%22179%22&ti… Advisory to FIRST Community - BGP Port 179 DDoS Risk Or How to cause unprecedented global chaos this week. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDD5-qlu0rlHUtjNZHKrfdug99ynSXHc2v dHPktTFH4/edit?usp=sharing Protecting BGP Sessions - Step-by-Step Guide to Prevent an Easy DDoS https://docs.google.com/document/d/13GoLbWmeypFerOJCh5Dp4-KcMu4BArXJP33PfYJ… Shadowserver Report: HIGH: Open BGP Service Report https://www.shadowserver.org/what-we-do/network-reporting/open-bgp-service-… Shadowserver Report: MEDIUM: Accessible BGP Service Report https://www.shadowserver.org/what-we-do/network-reporting/accessible-bgp-se…

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InternetNZ - DNSSEC ZSK Standby Chain Rollover
by Felipe Barbosa 09 Nov '25

09 Nov '25

InternetNZ will begin a DNSSEC Zone Signing Key rollover in our current standby chain. This should not affect the active chain used in DNS resolution for .nz. The status and scheduling will be posted to status.internetnz.nz. This will consist of two maintenance windows, in each window we will pause zone distribution to make changes, perform validation, and resume zone distribution for the following zones: nz, ac.nz, co.nz, cri.nz, geek.nz, gen.nz, govt.nz, health.nz, iwi.nz, kiwi.nz, maori.nz, mil.nz, net.nz, org.nz, parliament.nz, and school.nz The first change window is on the following link: https://status.internetnz.nz/incidents/gb1hdqdfh9jn For questions or issues please contact registry(a)internetnz.net.nz, for updates please subscribe to the IRS Production > Zone Publish component of status.internetnz.nz -- Ngā mihi Felipe Agnelli Barbosa DNS Specialist InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa We are the home of .nz and we work for an Internet that benefits all of Aotearoa. www.internetnz.nz GPG: 95C1 8BDC EFA7 9CAC 303D 003E A058 2449 D152 8580

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NZNOG2026 - Call for Presentations
by Richard Nelson 04 Nov '25

04 Nov '25

Here is the official call for presentations for next year's conference. This year we will be accepting in batches on an ongoing basis. This call will probably be repeated in the New Year to help get any extra presentations we need. Richard ** *NZNOG 2026 Call for Presentations* * The NZNOG Trustees invite presentation proposals for the 23rd NZNOG conference, to be hosted at the Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre from 23–27 March 2026. Conference objective: The NZNOG conference, workshops and tutorials are an opportunity for individuals and organisations involved in Internet operations to meet and share the latest in Internet operations, technologies, practices and receive high quality training. The event is unique in New Zealand and attracts technical, skilled individuals with a genuine interest in Internet operations and Internetworking technologies. Submissions on any aspect of networking are welcome however we are particularly interested in presentations that involve real world operational experience, particularly in New Zealand. Conference registration for accepted presenters will be free. Submit a proposal: Presenters are invited to submit presentation proposals. Talks will be reviewed and accepted (or rejected) as they are received. Often we will have a discussion with a potential presenter to refine the proposed content and ensure it is appropriate for our audience. We are also happy to have a chat about your idea before you make a proposal. Please provide your talk title, a short presenter bio and a description of the proposed presentation. Description should be no more than one page long and provide a summary of your networking related subject matter. Normally presentations are 30 min long, are video streamed live and slide decks are posted to the NZNOG website. If you want a different duration or other arrangements please let us know at submission time. To submit your proposal please e-mail: talks(a)nznog.org <mailto:talks@nznog.org> www.nznog.org *

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