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NZNOG '04 Programme
by Donald Neal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So, after an unfortunate amount of delay, we finally have a tentative programme for the NZNOG (aka Big Geek Programme) '04 conference. Despite our best efforts we still don't have all speakers confirmed but the confirmed speakers, topics and abstracts are all available from: http://www.nznog.org/programme.php Other major developments are the announcement of our primary sponsor and the addition of an extra workshop day to the conference schedule. We are pleased to announce that CityLink will be the conference's primary sponsor. I'm sure we are all already aware of the great work CityLink do for the NZ network scene through the operation of WIX and APE, and we would like to extend our thanks to them for their support of this conference. Also on the sponsorship front, we would like to thank Roger De Salis and FX networks for their sponsorship of a bartab for the night of the conference dinner. I'm sure that there will be plenty of us there to thank him in person on the night ! There are also a number of other sponsors who we don't have space to thank individually here, but we appreciate the support and it all helps us make the conference more enjoyable and informative for all. The conference has now been extended by placing a workshop/tutorial day on Wednesday the 28th, before the conference proper on the 29th and 30th. We have currently two workshops scheduled during the day, a full day APNIC training session and a half day "Wireless workshop". These sessions are available for no extra cost to anyone who registers for the main conference. More details on these workshops as we receive them are available from: http://www.nznog.org/workshops.php Earlybird registrations close on Janurary the 9th, so for many people there is less than two working weeks before the conference fee increases. There is still accomodation available on campus as detailed on the website. There are only a limited number of rooms available with an ethernet Internet connection provided, so if you want one of those, get in quick. As always, the latest and most complete information can be found on the conference website: http://www.nznog.org Any queries or problems relating to any of this can be forwarded to: info(a)nznog.org Cheers Jamie (on behalf of the NZNOG organising committee) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jamie Curtis email: jpc2(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz WAND Group Lab G1.03 phone +64 21 392 102 Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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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Telecom/Telstra Peering.
by Simon Lyall 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

At the bottom of a fairly unrelated story[1] I came across: " Meanwhile, Telecom and TelstraClear have signed a peering agreement which formalises arrangements under which the telcos move data traffic across one another's networks. Mr Goulter says the telcos' engineering teams have cooperated to allow peering for some time, but the new commercial agreement is "good for the future of the industry". " John Goulter is a Telecom Spokesman, I can't find anything about the deal on either company's media release sites however. [1] http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2757590a28,00.html -- Simon J. Lyall. | Very Busy | Mail: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.

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ICONZ and TelstraClear have agreed to peer with one another
by Juha Saarinen 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

Got a terse media statement about the above... no actual details, but it looks like ICONZ has agreed to pay TelstraClear for domestic peering. Wonder what the consequences of that'll be? -- Juha

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RE: [nznog] APE, citylink, LOTR thingy
by Michael Bordignon 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

> Can someone post some links to these other streams ? Thanks. http://www.r2.co.nz/20031201/ I can see the 384kb/sec stream perfectly (mostly, apart from some buffering) now, webcams are pretty much ok now too. Michael

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Ihug Peering prefix-list update
by Leon Chang 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Would all Ihug's domestic peers please update their prefix-list. The update-to-date prefix list can be found at: http://www.ihug.net/ihug-prefix-list Thanks. -- Leon Chang, CCNP, CCDP Senior Network Engineer The Internet Group Ltd. (IHUG), Auckland, New Zealand AS7657 PH: +64 9 359 2710 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [nznog] TC routing
by Donald Neal 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: [...] Andy Linton > Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2003 09:47 > To: nznog > Subject: Re: [nznog] TC routing > > > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 05:20, Barry Murphy wrote: > > Wouldn't it be nice to have mrtg graphs of both WIX and APE > like whats been > > done with LINX > > http://www.linx.net/tools/stats/index.thtml [...] > That's not to say we aren't thinking of ways to catalogue and measure > the benefits of having the exchanges. Perhaps measures of the > round trip > times between various points on the network would be of more interest. > > A job for the lads at Waikato's WAND group funded by InternetNZ? Or possibly just place "beacon" devices - whether servers or SAA-capable routers - at the exchange points so people can run their own tests to a point attached to the exchange but outside their own networks? Donald Neal | "They won't wobble. They won't! Technical Specialist | I shall lean against them Operations Engineering | myself, and I'm 6ft 6in. I will Integration & Services Divn. | personally eliminate wobble." Alcatel NZ Ltd | All opinions mine only. | - Russell T. Davies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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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APRICOT 2004 : Speakers for Peering and Internet Exchange Track
by Simon Lyall 06 Dec '03

06 Dec '03

If people are going to APRICOT 2004 they might be interesting in the below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:04:40 -0800 From: William B. Norton <wbn(a)equinix.com> To: apops(a)apops.net Subject: [apops] APRICOT 2004 : Speakers for Peering and Internet Exchange Track Hi all - You may have heard that there will be a new one-day track on Peering and Internet Exchanges at the upcoming APRICOT in Kuala Lumpur. I'd like to describe the track in brief and solicit a few more Peering Coordinators / Network Architects / Network Engineers as speakers for the track. (See http://www.apricot2004.net/ for information on the broader APRICOT 2004 conference). This Peering and Internet Exchange Track is intended to facilitate regional ISP Peering by providing a forum for Peering Coordinators to meet each other and share information about Asia Pacific peering. We will facilitate this with several panels, each one focused on peering in a particular country. If you are a Peering Coordinator with experience peering in the AP Region, please send me an e-mail answering the questions below. I will use this information to match panelists together into panels focused on certain AP countries. Thanks! Bill --------------------------- Speaker Questionnaire ------------------------------------ If you are able and willing to speak at the Feb 2004 APRICOT Peering and Internet Exchange Track, please fill out the following form and e-mail to William B. Norton at wbn(a)umich.edu: Name: __________________ Title: ___________________ Company: _______________ AS # _________________ In what country do you live? _________________ Email Address: __________________ We will select a set of panelists based on the answers to the questions below: 1) In what countries do you peer? 2) In which AP Country do you have peering experiences that you can share with the audience? 3) Answer as many of the questions below as applicable, as you would present as part of your presentation a) We are looking for speakers that have found interesting or unique country peering ecosystem characteristics. Have you uncovered any unexpected or interesting/unique peering ecosystem characteristics in any of the countries where you peer? Please give a few examples. b) We are also looking for unusual or unexpected traffic patterns. For example, a large amount of Japan traffic is ultimately destined to and from Brazil! Identifying and explaining this type of inter-country traffic would be a good set of data to launch a presentation. Do you have any of this type of data that you can share? c) What are the problems and challenges that you face as you build peering infrastructure into various AP countries? d) If other Peering Coordinators follow your footsteps into regions in which you now peer, what would you tell them: · is information that you would have liked to have had? · Are unexpected problems that you faced? e) What are the emerging trends that you see in the peering ecosystems in which you operate (transit and transport prices going up or down and the implications as you see them). /* William B. Norton <wbn(a)equinix.com> 650.315.8635 Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison Equinix, Inc. */ _______________________________________________ apops mailing list apops(a)apops.net http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apops

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Network security heads-up
by Matthew Poole 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Morning all. I have received information which indicates that one of the more notorious members of NZ's black-hat community has been "fiddling" with things he shouldn't. www.deadsnake.net is one example. In light of this, it may be advisable to check the security of your network-facing systems. Regards

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Multiple power outages in Dunedin
by Dan Clark 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hi Guys, Just been a couple of consecutive power outages here in Dunedin one after the other, anyone with equipment down here might wanna check their battery/diesel levels, may have been a bit hard on some automatic cut-in breakers as the power went down quite soon after it came up from the first outage. First major outage in some time, great test for our UPS and Generator. Kind Regards, Dan Clark Network Manager DunedinWireless Scarfies.Net Ltd Wickliffe Limited

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LOTR Premiere footage
by Richard Naylor 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

now available on www.r2.co.nz/20031201 be warned its 4:45 long rich

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