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Vodafone Issues
by Ernest Cunningham 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi all, If somebody from Vodafones mac savy tech department could contact me off list I need some help with an issue I am having with my MacBook Pro + HSDPA Express Card (connections are fine, it is a more technical issue I have to do with unexplained network activity). Ernest Cunningham

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XTRA mail servers
by Tom 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

on 7/12/2006 2:10 PM Simon wrote: > We are having some major issues over the past week when forwarding > mail to xtra. Mainly: > > - delivery temporarily suspended: connect to mta.xtra.co.nz > - connect to mta.xtra.co.nz[210.54.141.1]: server dropped connection > without sending the initial SMTP greeting > > Has anyone seen any of these issues and knows anything about them? I've been seeing similar issues, such as 2006-12-07 14:13:36 1Gs4Fp-0000gi-Vv SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: host mta.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.1]: 421 Service not available 2006-12-07 14:13:36 1Gs4Fq-0000hO-Ut mta.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.1] Connection refused 2006-12-07 12:03:52 1Gs4YH-0002YT-Qz mx1.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.1] Connection reset by peer 2006-12-07 12:34:26 1Gs4Ll-00049D-Hg Remote host mx1.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.1] closed connection in response to initial connection same issues, mail isn't getting delivered until a force mail queue run is done, clients are moaning...as usual :( tom

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APNIC member survey: Still open for participation
by Elly Tawhai 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Apologies for duplicate postings -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [apnic-talk] [Apnic-announce] APNIC Member Survey Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:00:02 +1000 From: dg(a)apnic.net Reply-To: apnic-talk(a)apnic.net To: apnic-announce(a)apnic.net Dear APNIC members and friends, As you may know, since 1999 the APNIC Executive Council has commissioned a regular survey of the APNIC community. Three surveys have been held so far, providing crucial input on APNIC's performance, development and future direction. Today we are pleased to announce the fourth survey of APNIC members and stakeholders. As in the past, this survey will be conducted independently from the APNIC secretariat, by the international firm KPMG. In this manner the process is assured to be neutral and objective, ensuring the highest quality result. Once again Dr John Earls of KPMG has developed the survey format and questions, with input from a large group of selected validators from the APNIC community. Dr Earls will receive and process all survey responses, and will guarantee the anonymity of all respondents. His report will be presented at the APNIC Annual Members Meeting in March 2007. We hope that you will participate in this important exercise, whether or not you are an APNIC member, or have participated in a previous APNIC survey. To express our appreciation for your time and effort, APNIC will provide a special reward to 3 randomly picked respondents. This reward, an APNIC meeting fellowship package, will include complimentary meeting registration plus USD $500.00 towards expenses, and can be used at either of the APNIC Open Policy Meetings in 2007. To participate in the survey, please visit the APNIC website and follow the instructions at: http://www.apnic.net/survey/2007 With sincere thanks in advance for your assistance, Paul Wilson Director General Akinori Maemura Chair, Executive Council. ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Wilson email: pwilson(a)apnic.net Director General, APNIC sip: apnic(a)voip.apnic.net http://www.apnic.net phone: +61 7 3858 3100 ________________________________________________________________________

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IPv4 Exhaustion
by Philip D'Ath 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

I attended a very interesting presentation today by Tony Bain, one of the key IETF IPv6 chairs. He says that the rate of /8's being allocated is increasing exponentially at that moment (22 were allocated in 18 months [till July 2005], leaving just 64 available worldwide), and the prior estimate of when IPv4 address was going to be exhausted of 2020 has been revised to 2009 - as in three years away, and that IPv4 address space is likely to take on a much more commercially tradable value as it becomes very rare (like oil). For existing players in the market this doesn't mean much. However for expanding networks this is going to put a serious crimp in their plans. I polled a lot of players in the NZ market about 6 months ago and plans for IPv6 deployment were almost non-existent. There is an older article he wrote here: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_8-3/ipv4. html We really need large commercial transit players like Global Gateway, TelstraClear, AT&T, UUNet, AsiaNetCom, and Sprint to start offering dual stack IPv6 connections to downstream ISPs, and for ISPs to start allowing clients to connection via IPv6, including via DSL. We really need to get critical infrastructure, like DNS, fully IPv6 enabled. The .nz domain isn't even reachable via IPv6 addresses yet. Now I know the shared registry system has IPv6 support now, but it is limiting in that you must still supply IPv4 addresses. You can't supply only IPv6 glue records. What happens when you can't get IPv4 addresses to use for glue? Also the majority of the registries out their offer very poor IPv6 support - as in no IPv6 connected DNS servers, and an inability to easily add IPv6 AAAA records.

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Moving DNS providers - best practice.
by Simon Lyall 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

After a few recent instances I am getting sick of companies who transfer their DNS/Servers from one provider to another and then wonder why the old data is still cached by 3rd parties for 24 hours (or whatever). How do people feel about a "best practice" document on this that we could encourage people to follow ( perhaps the DNC could publish) for people moving their domain between providers. Just the basics like, dropping the TTLs, getting all the servers data in the right order etc? Similar to this: http://www.onr.com/services/data_center/colocation/transfer_tips.html Thoguhts? -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.

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NO contact list
by Gerard Creamer 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

There now appear to be two versions of this list. http://www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz/content/view/49/40/ and http://www.usenet.net.nz/noc/index.html We have recently been assigned a public AS and I thought we should probably go on the list - as we're growing our things breaking will have a wider impact and other NOs might want to get hold of us. I have no issue with being woken up in the middle of the night when our things break. I have a strong objection to being woken up when someone elses things break. Personally I like the (mostly) unlinked anonymity of the list at usenet.net.nz, as it's less likely to be some kid who has no idea what an AS is calling at 2am because the gaming server they're using in suddenly unreachable (probably due to some reason other than our network being broken). Sure, the kid might ultimately pay my wages, but they're sure as hell not my customer... I emailed Simon Lyall yesterday to ask to go on the list at usenet.net.nz - is this still going to be considered the NO list? I know there's no king and all that jazz, but some direction for a newbie AS NO would be appreciated... For the record, here's our guff: Name Netspace Services Limited Domains netspace.net.nz ASN(s) 9733 Phone Number(s) +64 4 917 8098, 0800 NETSPACE (0800 638 772) Clueful People Gerard Creamer Direct Email noc(a)netspace.net.nz Hours Office Thanks, Gerard

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XTRA mail servers
by Simon 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Hi There :) We are having some major issues over the past week when forwarding mail to xtra. Mainly: - delivery temporarily suspended: connect to mta.xtra.co.nz - connect to mta.xtra.co.nz[210.54.141.1]: server dropped connection without sending the initial SMTP greeting Has anyone seen any of these issues and knows anything about them? I just trying to contact XTRA's administrators, but no response. I have had a good response back from the corporate side of XTRA, which is assuring. Regards and Thanks, Simon

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Re: [nznog] NZNOG 2007: CFP: Network Systems Administration MiniConf
by Ewen McNeill 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

In message <20061122214213.8BB2A43E17(a)wat.la.naos.co.nz>, Ewen McNeill writes: > Call for Presentations for > NZNOG 2007: Network Systems Administration Mini-Conference >[....] >Some possible topics: >- Email servers and spam filtering techniques >[....] >Please send all proposals and questions to <talks(a)nznog.miniconf.org> At the risk of distracting everyone from arguing about responsible use of the list, I'd just like to point out that we still have room for a couple more talks at the Sysadmin Miniconf (on the first day of NZNOG 2007). And that we'd particularly welcome a proposal on, eg, best practices in running a mail server, or coping with the ever increasing volume of spam without rejecting all the legitimate mail. Proposals of other relevant talks (see the original CFP) are also welcomed, but be quick as we'd like to finalise the programme before Christmas so the speakers know what their summer homework is. Ewen

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Re: [nznog] Xtra Email Administrators
by Martin Kealey 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

<metoo/> Given that (apparently) along with many other ISPs, Ihug also seem to have trouble with Xtra's inbound mailservers, perhaps I should say "could someone from Xtra please contact me ON list". (Yes we're all on fire trying to deal with Image Spam, but refusing valid mail just makes it worse...) -Martin -- Martin D Kealey, ihüg Systems Engineer

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Xtra Email Administrators
by Simon 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Would someone from the xtra email team please be able to contact me offlist? Much appreciated. Simon

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