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GLIF 2017
by GLIF Secretariat 22 May '17

22 May '17

All, Apologies for the advertising, but this global research and education networking event hosted by AARNet in Sydney may be of interest to some… Regards, Kevin Meynell ---- 17th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop - GLIF 2017 25-27 September 2017 Camperdown Campus, University of Sydney, Australia https://www.glif.is/meetings/2017/flyer.pdf <https://www.glif.is/meetings/2017/flyer.pdf> We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 17th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop which is being hosted by AARNet, the Australian National Research and Education Network. This will bring together leading network personnel from around the world to collaborate and exchange knowledge on new lambda networking technologies, middleware and applications. The workshop will have a specific focus on how global network architectures are supporting research applications in the Pacific region, in particular astronomy, high-energy physics, and microbiology and how big data is sent and processed around the world. There will also be discussions on the Pacific Islands Research and Education Network, long distance parallel file systems, new SDN and SDX initiatives, along with demonstrations of applications that can take advantage of these network facilities. The registration fee is AUD 450 per person (AUD 350 for registered students) up to 23 August 2017, and AUD 500 per person (AUD 400 for registered students) thereafter. Accommodation is available in the Rydges Camperdown at the special rate of AUD 165 per night including GST, the Mercure Sydney Central at the special rate of AUD 249 per night, and the Waldorf Sydney Central Serviced Apartments at the special rate of AUD 195 per night including GST. These can be reserved when registering for the workshop, and should be booked before 23 August 2017. Please note that a Software Defined Networking (SDN) Workshop will also held on Thursday, 28 September 2017 at the University of New South Wales. You can register, book accommodation and pay online at https://www.glif.is/meetings/2017/ <https://www.glif.is/meetings/2017/>

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Issue with connections from CanIt-Domain-PRO anti-spam filter
by Jean-Francois Pirus 18 May '17

18 May '17

Hi all, I have an interesting issue. Just upgraded our mail server to handle srs-milter. Since the upgrade we found that the srs-milter would crash around 05:50 and 22:20 everyday. (Obviously it's got a bug) Turns out everyday around 05:50 we get a connection from canit-1.iserve.net.nz[202.191.33.141] And every night around 20:20 we get a connection from canit-scanner-2.slingshot.co.nz[60.234.4.40] They both seem to be running CanIt-Domain-PRO anti-spam filter. I cannot just block the scanner as the address is shared with MX's (ie: canit-scanner-2.slingshot.co.nz[60.234.4.40] and canit-slingshot-mx-2.t3.nz) Seems like the scanner is sending 'unusual' data once a day on a schedule. Any ideas what that single daily connection is about? or workarounds? Thanks. PS: Apart from fixing the bug myself... -- Jean-Francois Pirus | Technical Manager francois(a)clearfield.com | Mob +64 21 640 779 | DDI +64 9 282 3401 Clearfield Software Ltd | Ph +64 9 358 2081 | www.clearfield.com

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Power issues in Skytower
by Patrick Ohearn 16 May '17

16 May '17

Hi list, Has anyone has any power issues in skytower this afternoon? We briefly lost power on level 47 around 1600.

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AusNOG 2017 Call for Presentations
by Mark Prior 08 May '17

08 May '17

The next AusNOG conference is only four months away, scheduled to be held at The Langham, Melbourne, on 7 & 8 September 2017, so we are making our first call for presentations of interest to the Internet operations community. Previous feedback has suggested that attendees would like more content from the community so we'd like to encourage members of the community to submit more proposals, especially if you haven't previously presented! Internet operations is a broad topic but some areas of interest are: * Improving the redundancy/resiliency/sustainability of your network * Using automation to improve service reliability * Taking the network operations BCP to the next level * Using 'offline' communications tools to keep the network working * Evolution in network architectures and scaling issues * Analysis of relevant major operational events of the year Naturally other topics that are of interest to the network operator community are also welcome but presentations of a purely marketing nature are not welcome at this technical event. Notes to presenters =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Preference will be given to presentations that result in actual operational outcomes. Session speakers should be prepared to present for 30 minutes. Keynote speakers will be expected to present for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Short presentations of strong operational content are also acceptable. Please note any timing constraints when submitting a presentation. By submitting a presentation for consideration in the AusNOG 2017 programme, and if selected the presenter will allow AusNOG to: * Take photographs of the presentation and presenter * Record and rebroadcast video and audio of the presentation and presenter * Redistribute the presentation slides, audio, video, and photographs electronically, on the AusNOG website, or otherwise but leaving all intellectual property in the hands of presenter or rightful property holder[1]. Deadlines =-=-=-=-= 12 June: Submission of presentation title, presentation description (300 words), and presenter biography (200-400 words) 10 July: Presenters notified of their acceptance status as an AusNOG 2017 presentation. 30 August: Submission of final presentation slides as Portable Document Format (pdf), PowerPoint, or Keynote. Provision of a recent digital photograph (<500k) of the presenter. All submissions must be sent by email to organisers AT ausnog DOT net. A separate call for lightning talks will be made closer to the AusNOG 2017 event. As in previous years you must be registered to attend AusNOG 2017 in order to be considered for a lightning talk. [1]: AusNOG accepts that some speakers are unable to allow us to archive their presentation due to company or corporate policy, and if the situation arises AusNOG will delete all copies in its possession after the presentation.

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Alcatel IPv6 PPPoE
by Pieter De Wit 03 May '17

03 May '17

Good Morning List, I was wondering if anyone out here (there :)) has a working config for an Alcatel 7750 to give out IPv6 to subscribers. We would like to allocate /112's as a link net between the CPE and the BNG. We then want to route a /64 or /48 over this link net. All of this is configured in Radius. The link-nets are configure using the "wan-host" option under the subscriber interface. The /64 or /48 subnets is part of a /36 configured as the "pd" option. From what I was reading, it appears as if the link-nets needs to be /64...surely not ? Cheers, Pieter

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Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services’ Internet traffic
by Michael Fincham 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

Morning all, For those who didn't spot this yet: <https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/russian-controlled-telecom-hijacks…> "On Wednesday, large chunks of network traffic belonging to MasterCard, Visa, and more than two dozen other financial services companies were briefly routed through a Russian government-controlled telecom under unexplained circumstances that renew lingering questions about the trust and reliability of some of the most sensitive Internet communications." -- Michael

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OOB - Vocus DC, 7A Parkhead Pl, Albany
by Bruce Forster 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

Hi Noggers, Looking for a 2/10mb OOB link in Vocus DC, 7A Parkhead Pl, Albany Can someone please email me off list with some pricing? -- Regards, Bruce

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Re: [nznog] Alcatel IPv6 PPPoE
by JORDI PALET MARTINEZ 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Sorry, wrong paste … https://www.sinog.si/docs/draft-IPv6pd-BCOP-v1.pdf Regards, Jordi -----Mensaje original----- De: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet(a)consulintel.es> Fecha: lunes, 24 de abril de 2017, 23:49 Para: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Asunto: Re: [nznog] Alcatel IPv6 PPPoE This may be useful. Is work in progress, but we believe that we will reach consensus in the next RIPE meeting adding some suggestions that we got in the last weeks: º ALBARÁN.......: 02643/2557863 SERVICIO........: Ecommerce FECHA............: 20/04/2017 CLIENTE RECOGIDA.: MOREMAR SL CLIENTE ENTREGA.: ANA SUBIRATS RODRÍGUEZ CLIENTE ABONADO..: MOREMAR SL LOCALIDAD ENTREGA: IGUALADA OBS. ENTREGA TTM: HEMOS LLAMADO DURANTE TODA LA TARDE Y NADIE HA CONTESTADO, TENIAMOS 2 TELEFONOS Y NAD A -DESTINATARIO AUSENTE/CERRADO : X Regards, Jordi -----Mensaje original----- De: <nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> en nombre de Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter(a)gmail.com> Organización: University of Auckland Responder a: <brian.e.carpenter(a)gmail.com> Fecha: lunes, 24 de abril de 2017, 22:35 Para: Pieter De Wit <pieter(a)insync.za.net>, <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Asunto: Re: [nznog] Alcatel IPv6 PPPoE On 25/04/2017 07:51, Pieter De Wit wrote: > Good Morning List, > > I was wondering if anyone out here (there :)) has a working config for > an Alcatel 7750 to give out IPv6 to subscribers. We would like to > allocate /112's as a link net between the CPE and the BNG. We then want > to route a /64 or /48 over this link net. Please don't hand out /64s. That prevents people subnetting their IPv6 in their home or office. You can always hand out /56 if you really think /48 is too much. > All of this is configured in > Radius. > > The link-nets are configure using the "wan-host" option under the > subscriber interface. The /64 or /48 subnets is part of a /36 configured > as the "pd" option. > > From what I was reading, it appears as if the link-nets needs to be > /64...surely not ? Not unless your vendor has a pointless restriction. The only RFC in the area is https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6164 which recommends /127 but there's nothing to prevent /112 from working if that's what you want. Regards Brian _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog ********************************************** IPv4 is over Are you ready for the new Internet ? http://www.consulintel.es The IPv6 Company This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, including attached files, is prohibited.

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Xtra and SPF
by Glen Eustace 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hi, We have started receiving complaints from several of our customers for whom we are the MX for their domain. Some addresses in the domain are delivered locally, some are relayed to other mailboxes e.g. gmail and xtra. It seems that there are folks who still believe that SPF is a good thing and have ‘-all’ on their record. Xtra it would appear is now enforcing the rejection on email we relay to them. We are placed in an awkward position. Our customer wants us to fix something that we are not really able to. The SPF policy belongs to the sender and Xtra are doing the rejection. I have come across another add on technology for postfix called SRS for rewriting senders but that seems to be broken from all accounts as well. Is anyone else having these sort of issues, is there something I should be doing in the ‘relay’ process that will prevent the rejections I’d love to hear. Glen -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen Eustace, GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., P.O. Box 8020, Palmerston North, New Zealand 4446 Ph +64 6 357 8168, Mob +64 27 542 4015 “Specialising in providing low-cost professional Internet Services since 1997"

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Interesting issue with iperf3 and UDP
by Dylan Hall 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

I stumbled across an issue with iperf3 and it's UDP mode recently that I thought was worth sharing. In short it's very bursty and in my opinion broken. Use iperf (2.0.x) instead. The interesting detail: I recently got UFB at home (200/100 plan) and wanted to put it through it's paces. I did the usual TCP tests and it all looked good, so I decided to try UDP to look for packet loss. Even with fairly low rates (10-50 Mbps) I was seeing loss vary from 5% to 50%. I tried a number of different hosts around NZ, and one in the US and although each reported different amounts of loss there was always loss. I ran the tests with "-l 1400" as an option to force 1400 byte packets. Without this iperf sends 8kB packets that get fragmented which confuses the loss figures somewhat. I repeated the tests with iperf rather than iperf3 and everything worked perfectly. Focusing on one testing host, a 10G connected server near my ISP to minimise transit network in the way. The following is a little piece of a packet capture from the sending host using iperf (2.0.5). The rate was set to 15 Mbps. I've added the Delta field which is the time since the last packet was seen in micro seconds. 23:27:57.979021 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 746 23:27:57.979766 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 745 23:27:57.980511 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 745 23:27:57.981254 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 743 23:27:57.982001 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 747 23:27:57.982749 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 748 23:27:57.983492 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 743 23:27:57.984238 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 746 23:27:57.984986 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 748 23:27:57.985731 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 745 23:27:57.986478 IP x.x.x.x.56460 > y.y.y.y.5001: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 747 The packets are very evenly spaced. The following is using iperf3 (3.1.3) also at 15 Mbps. 23:28:23.913489 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 8 23:28:23.913496 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 7 23:28:23.913505 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 9 23:28:23.913513 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 8 23:28:23.913520 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 7 23:28:23.913529 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 9 23:28:23.913537 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 8 23:28:24.012445 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 98908 23:28:24.012458 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 13 23:28:24.012468 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 10 23:28:24.012475 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 7 23:28:24.012483 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 8 23:28:24.012492 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 9 23:28:24.012499 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 7 23:28:24.012508 IP x.x.x.x.49233 > y.y.y.y.5201: UDP, length 1400 Delta: 9 It appears to send a burst of very closely spaced packets, then take a break, then repeat. The cycle is about 100ms. Applying some hopefully correct maths, it appears to send about 187kB of data in just over 1ms, then rest for almost 99ms. This gives is about the right average rate (15 Mbps), but for that first 1 ms it's sending at about 1.4 Gbps. I assume that the loss I'm seeing is either buffers over flowing somewhere in the path or the Chorus rate-limit on UFB discarding the packets. The old version of iperf uses a busy loop in the sender to achieve the very precise timing for UDP mode which has the side effect of causing 100% CPU while sending. I wonder if the change in iperf3 is an attempt to make it more efficient. Had I Googled the issue at the beginning I would have found this is a known problem: https://github.com/esnet/iperf/issues/296 https://github.com/esnet/iperf/issues/386 Hopefully this will save someone else from a couple hours of confusion :) Thanks, Dylan

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