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New APE web site
by Andy Linton 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

As of today, the APE web site has had a revamp. Those of you familiar with the WIX site will notice some similarities! The features that I think are useful from a day to day operational perspective are the Looking Glasses e.g. http://www.ape.net.nz/cgi-bin/mrlg-ape.cgi http://www.wix.net.nz/cgi-bin/mrlg-wix.cgi You can use these to see what routes are currently in the route servers and the state of peering seesions. For those of you who are keen to see what routes the route servers might push in your direction see: http://www.ape.net.nz/cgi-bin/ShowRoutes.cgi http://www.wix.net.nz/cgi-bin/ShowRoutes.cgi These will show you the filter lists we apply to outbound routes. This meta-table is the union of all the inbound filters applied to the BGP peering sessions of exchange participants. The list showing the export to 23754 is the same list applied to all participants.

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The New Zealand Network Operators' Group
by Donald Neal 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

The New Zealand Network Operators' Group The New Zealand Network Operators' Group (NZNOG) has no king, president or formal membership. At present it consists of the subscribers to this mailing list, which anyone is free to join. Meetings See http://www.nznog.org/ for details of this year's conference. We are now working towards a similar gathering to be held early next year. Also see http://auckland.thursdaynightcurry.com/ if you live in or near Auckland. Operators' Contact List See http://www.usenet.net.nz/noc/ for operational contact details for most New Zealand ISP's. These are intended for use by other network operators rather than by most customers. Internet Exchanges See http://www.ape.net.nz/ for details of the Auckland Peering Exchange and those connected there. See http://www.wix.net.nz/ for the Wellington Internet Exchange. About This Mailing List This list has over six hundred addresses subscribed. You may only post to the list from a subscribed address. A number of people subscribe addresses which do not receive email purely to allow posting from them. The NZNOG mailing list is provided through a server at The University of Waikato, and is administered by employees of Alcatel NZ Ltd, Citylink and ihug Ltd. None of these organisations, nor any administrator, is responsible for its content. NZNOG Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy The NZNOG mailing list exists to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of implementation issues that require cooperation among New Zealand network service providers. In order to continue to provide a useful forum for discussion of relevant technical issues, users of the list are asked to respect the following guidelines. 1. Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues. 2. Discussion related to meetings of network service providers is appropriate. 3. Discussion unrelated to these topics is not appropriate. 4. Postings to multiple mailing lists are discouraged. 5. Postings that include foul language, character assassination, and lack of respect for other participants are unacceptable. 6. Blatant product or service marketing is unacceptable. 7. Postings of a political, philosophical or legal nature are discouraged. 8. Postings to the list should be in ASCII or MIME encoded as text/plain. Attachments should not be sent to the list. To present a document, a suitable URL may be referred to. For documents of general interest, the use of proprietary file formats is discouraged. 9. Breaches of list etiquette should be dealt with privately with the offending list user, and should not result in complaints being sent to the list. 10. A person repeatedly breaching list etiquette shall receive warnings from the list administrator. A further breach after the second such warning within thirty days shall result in the offender being unsubscribed from the list. Other action may also be taken to block postings to the list by the offender. Any such unsubscription is to be immediately announced to the list. Mailing List Archives A full archive is available at http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/nznog/ Any message sent to the list will be archived and made available on the web automatically. Changes are not made to the archive on request, though the administrators remain happy to assist the Office of the Privacy Commissioner should any complaint be laid with that office. One way to search the archive is to use google and prefix your search with site:list.waikato.ac.nz . Subscribing to the List See http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog to subscribe. Donald Neal NZNOG Mailing List Owner/Administrator/Muggins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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No beer, but spammer gets his comeuppance
by Juha Saarinen 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3581435.stm Right, will go back to the ADSL list now. -- Juha

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UBD
by jfp 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Hi guys, it looks like the situation with UBD had been fixed. See Juha's article in the Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3557667&thesection=bu siness&thesubsection=technology Thanks to the Spamhaus guys for putting a bit of pressure on. And also thanks for the APN guys (owners of UBD) for resolving the issue quickly. jfp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jean-Francois Pirus <jfp(a)clearfield.com> Clearfield Software Ltd Phone (+64-9) 358 2081 4th Floor 8-10 Whitaker Place Fax (+64-9) 358 2083 P O Box 2348 Auckland, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Speed of Citilink provisioning?
by NZNOG＠neilnz.com 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

Hi guys - how quickly can Citilink provision a building next to their own that has had ethernet in the past (possibly currently for other tenants)? If anyone from Citilink spies this email and would like to help me out by giving me the the name of the right person to talk too, please email back. I would really like to have an active connection on the 6th of April so I can do some Firewall training at our Wellington Offices on the 7th and 8th. (After the training, the connection will stay as our Internet connection for the Wgtn office) Cheers - Neil G

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Orcon Internet Prefix List Update (2004-03-29)
by Craig Whitmore 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

For all those peering with Orcon Internet (AS17746) nationally, please update your prefix lists with the following networks (also in attached file). Added: ip prefix-list orcon-national permit 202.53.176.0/20 Thanks Craig Whitmore Systems Administrator Orcon Internet http://www.orcon.net.nz

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UBD, our local spammers's friend.
by jfp 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Some of you might not be aware that UBD sells its list of e-mail addresses to local businesses who then proceed to SPAM you. UDB sells their service as a business directory for potential clients who might be interested in your company. What you get instead is people buying their mailing list to sell you stuff via SPAM. (All legally of course) We found this out last year and asked to have our email address removed from their list which they said they did. Only we are still getting SPAMmed this year. I had a discussion with them at the time and they did not see their selling a list of e-mail addresses for the wrong purpose as an issue. Has anybody had any dealings with them or can think of any way to make them change their ways? jfp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jean-Francois Pirus <jfp(a)clearfield.com> Clearfield Software Ltd Phone (+64-9) 358 2081 4th Floor 8-10 Whitaker Place Fax (+64-9) 358 2083 P O Box 2348 Auckland, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: Urgent message for all ANZ customers]
by Steve Withers 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Now I'm getting phishing messages for the ANZ....

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Largest MTU on your network
by Jonathan Brewer 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Hi Folks, With all the talk of "Next Generation" networks and such, I wonder, what's the largest MTU allowed by your hardware? I have found some of my kit incapable of even the 9k "jumbograms" as belittled here: http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/ Who out there allows larger MTUs? Cheers, Jon Brewer

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RE: [nznog] Legal log retention requirements?
by Donald Neal 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: > nznog-bounces+Donald.Neal=telecom.co.nz(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > [mailto:nznog-bounces+Donald.Neal=telecom.co.nz(a)list.waikato.a > c.nz] On Behalf Of Joe Abley > Sent: Wednesday, 24 March 2004 9:23 a.m. > To: James Riden > Cc: NZ Network Operators Group > Subject: Re: [nznog] Legal log retention requirements? [...] > The truly paranoid also won't use syslog :-) > > Has anybody seen an implementation of RFC3195 in the wild, by the way? > http://security.sdsc.edu/software/sdsc-syslog/ ? - Donald Neal Donald Neal | "I suspect most samba Technical Specialist | developers are already Operations Engineering | technically insane. Of course, Integration & Services Divn. | since many of them are Alcatel NZ Ltd | Australians you can't tell." All opinions mine only. | - Linus Torvalds ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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