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HEADS UP - LOTR Premiere
by Richard Naylor 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

Hello All, This is a very preliminary Heads Up on the network impact of the LOTR Premiere to be held in 2 months time. I'm detailing what is planned so that operators can make arrangements for bandwidth, peering, route exchanging, or other descriptions for making it easy for their customers to view the content. Offers of bandwidth, money, food or sleep are also very welcome. (Its monday and I'm tired and grumpy and may just tell everyone to bugger off) The current plan, is that we will have a few more webcams around the Courtenay Place area. These seem very popular, especially with Canadians for some reason. Viewers like to watch the street preparations and clean up take place. There will also be a large streaming programme in place, which MAY begin up to 7 days before the event and carry on up to 3 days afterwards. They may be 24 hour continuous streams. All streams at this stage will be at 5 bit rates (2 audio and 3 video). Both the webcam server and streaming server have gigE connections to WIX and are peered with as many as we can. Last year we were carrying around 140mbps and all servers were at around 10% capacity. We expect a little more interest this year. Our international capacity is very limited both by carrier and by budget. We are currently negotiating feeds to offshore streamers to reduce the potential international impact. Ours will certainly stop. Any offers of International capacity would be gladly accepted. At the moment we can't even guarantee that we will be able to feed off shore streamers. Confirmed Dates At this stage the following dates can be confirmed. Sun 30 Nov - theonering dance party. Andy will be playing. Don't know times yet. Mon 1 Dec - the premiere - set up, red carpet stuff, clean up. All day and most of the night stream. Event will be BIG. Last year the Avalon crew was used. This year I suspect we'll all have to pool camera feeds. The area to be covered is huge. (thats a big hint) What do I want ? Sleep, food, money. If you feel that your customers will be watching the event, please check your connectivity to WIX. If you have a streamer (MS) and want to carry a feed, I'll make a server available purely for replication servers, but this is very much demand driven. remember the budget is very easy to understand - zero. Please contact me if you have any questions. Cheers - rich

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Big Geek Programme '04
by Donald Neal 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

NZNOG People, Two days ago I outlined a possible lower-cost gathering to be held on The University of Waikato's "main campus in Hamilton on 29 and 30 January 2004. Indicative registration cost would be $100, with on-campus accommodation available at an indicative cost of $45 per night. The dates are dictated by availability of that low-cost accommodation. It is possible that the running time might be extended beyond two days, depending on the number of presentations to be included. The university is able to offer auditoriums of suitable size for pretty well any plausible number of registrations and for sessions of varying sizes." In the forty-eight hours since then I've been advised of forty-eight people who expect to attend. Of the thirteen people who expressed a preference, twelve opted for the lower-cost option. I think you can pencil into your calendars that this event will go ahead on those dates. At some stage a formal(ish) call for presentations should be issued. Before that, could people who are likely to attend please tell me what sort of topics they'd be interested in? Volunteers to present are, of course, welcome. Donald Neal | "And if you think virus Technical Specialist | writers are scary, you Operations Engineering | have clearly never met a Integration & Services Divn. | tort lawyer." Alcatel NZ Ltd | - The Economist 28/9/03 All opinions mine only. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Big Geek Plan '04 - Update
by Donald Neal 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

NZNOG People, I yesterday outlined a possible lower-cost gathering to be held on The University of Waikato's "main campus in Hamilton on 29 and 30 January 2004. Indicative registration cost would be $100, with on-campus accommodation available at an indicative cost of $45 per night. The dates are dictated by availability of that low-cost accommodation. It is possible that the running time might be extended beyond two days, depending on the number of presentations to be included. The university is able to offer auditoriums of suitable size for pretty well any plausible number of registrations and for sessions of varying sizes. I'd be interested to hear from people who are likely to attend, and _if you are likely to attend one or the other_ whether you would prefer the same format as this year and last." In the first twenty-four hours I've received responses covering 25 likely attendees. Of those expressing a preference, a huge proportion (all right, four votes to one) have opted for the lower-cost option. Is there anyone else likely to turn up, or wishing to express a preference? Donald Neal | "And if you think virus Technical Specialist | writers are scary, you Operations Engineering | have clearly never met a Integration & Services Divn. | tort lawyer." Alcatel NZ Ltd | - The Economist 28/9/03 All opinions mine only. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sys Admin Contractor Needed
by lists＠bagel.gen.nz 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

Hopefully this is on topic. If anyone on this list is/knows of a suitable person, please get in touch, preferably to dg-cv(a)techsavvy.co.nz. I am looking to contract someone to build a redundant network. I want to use mainly Linux boxen and possibly CISCO's. I need someone who can speak BGP and understands QoS. Also, person needs to be based in Auckland. I envisage 2 stages - building and documenting the network, and contracting to maintain it. Thanks, David.

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Transfering DNS from other ISP's and other services - opinions needed.
by Gavin Legge [Invincible Technologies Limited] 02 Sep '03

02 Sep '03

Good afternoon all. I have recently 'acquired' (transferred) a domain from one isp to one i work for. From this transfer, a few problems arose - which where quite possibly (probably) due to my ignorance but i wanted to ask the list's advice/opinion. when i transferred the domain/zone, the other ISP canceled the email accounts also. My question is i guess - is this normal, what is normal, is this a general practice with ISP's as if it is maybe I could implement that process here. Thanks for any advice/answers.

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Hi
by tayfun＠milliyet.com.tr 02 Sep '03

02 Sep '03

Hi, I am a member of this group for 2 months and I am reading e-mails with interest. Sometimes off topic e-mails are being sent to this group, so I am sending one. sorry about inconvenience. During the 4 months period that I have been to NZ, I have tried to get a job. It is possible because of not having NZ experience, I couldn't find yet. Here is the assembly point for IT engineers. to ask for advice and to ask for possible opportunities I would like to write a short brief about me and If any of you has position at your company I would love hear from you. I am WAN engineer with telecommunication and LAN management experience on Windows platform. I have CCNA certification and I have passed the routing exam of CCNP. I have mostly worked with Cisco routers, Alcatel/Newbridge/DXX high-speed modems and nodes, several types of ADSL/SDSL/ISDN modems etc. This is just a brief information about me but I can send my CV to anybody who interested in. My priority is starting with 1 step and begin to have NZ experience. I am open to trial offers or It will be easy to negotiate on everything else. I am permanent resident in NZ and I can legally work within NZ. In addition, I currently live in Mission Bay/Auckland. Thanks for your concern again sorry about inconvenience Regards Tayfun Tuna

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Big Geek Plan '04
by Donald Neal 02 Sep '03

02 Sep '03

NZNOG People, This year and last we have been part of UniForum New Zealand's annual conferences. Each year a great deal of useful, interesting and even entertaining material has been presented to around fifty NZNOG subscribers who have turned up. And each year there have been expressions of concern at the cost of registration for this conference. With that in mind, The University of Waikato's WAND group have offered to host a much lower-cost gathering next year. Current thinking would see this held on the university's main campus in Hamilton on 29 and 30 January 2004. Indicative registration cost would be $100, with on-campus accommodation available at an indicative cost of $45 per night. The dates are dictated by availability of that low-cost accommodation. It is possible that the running time might be extended beyond two days, depending on the number of presentations to be included. The university is able to offer auditoriums of suitable size for pretty well any plausible number of registrations and for sessions of varying sizes. I'd be interested to hear from people who are likely to attend, and _if you are likely to attend one or the other_ whether you would prefer the same format as this year and last. If you wish to raise subjects for discussion, by all means reply to the list. If you just wish to state a preference, please instead reply to me directly. - Donald Neal Explanatory Note NZNOG doesn't have subscriptions, paid staff and so on. That means that to have a face to face meeting with formal presentations, coffee and so on we need to have someone else do a fair amount of the work. This can be done either by working with an organisation who are already running a conference - and UniForum NZ are the best fit going for that option - or by having an NZNOG conference hosted by someone. This is our first attempt at taking the latter course. We simply don't know whether large numbers more people will really turn up if we run a much lower-cost event. I don't personally believe that the five hundred plus subscriptions to this list are going to turn into hundreds of attendees at anything. We also don't know how large an obstacle to attendance moving outside Auckland will be. It may even be an advantage. This proposal is an exercise in trying it and seeing what happens. Whether this is the format we adopt for 2004 or not, I believe a decision about the format of the next gathering should be made in the light of the response to this one. Donald Neal | "And if you think virus Technical Specialist | writers are scary, you Operations Engineering | have clearly never met a Integration & Services Divn. | tort lawyer." Alcatel NZ Ltd | - The Economist 28/9/03 All opinions mine only. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [nznog] Xtra mail.
by Simon Byrnand 31 Aug '03

31 Aug '03

At 16:53 1/09/2003 +1200, Simon Lyall wrote: >Just a quick email cause I can't be bothered getting permission from my >boss to post from work. > >Anyway look like our friend Xtra might be having problems with email. I'm >seeing queues building up and manual connects are just timing out. Same here...about 4:30 I noticed messages sent to Xtra were being accepted by mta.xtra.co.nz but not arriving in users pop accounts... (at least not within a reasonable amount of time) and just in the last 5 minutes connections are being refused as well... Regards, Simon Byrnand iGRIN Internet

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Xtra mail.
by Simon Lyall 31 Aug '03

31 Aug '03

Just a quick email cause I can't be bothered getting permission from my boss to post from work. Anyway look like our friend Xtra might be having problems with email. I'm seeing queues building up and manual connects are just timing out. -- 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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RE: [nznog] DomainNamesNZ
by Tim John 31 Aug '03

31 Aug '03

This has been taken up by the DNC - check out her website for the latest info. I'm not sure whether they are using an old version of the .nz zone file (although these haven't been available for at least 18 months), or they have some scripting engine pulling the information of the general WhoIs. This breaches the DNC policy on use of private information for commercial gain, yada, yada ... Tim -----Original Message----- From: Matthew G Brown [mailto:Matt(a)Brh.Co.Nz] Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2003 2:10 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] DomainNamesNZ I've been getting a few good old snail mail letters from Domainnamesnz.com offering me to register domain names. Eg: I own learnbydestroying.co.nz and the "offer" is for learnbydestroying.net . How ever since these letters include; Reference #, MPID ? , Closing Date, Credit card details, and very little info to conclude that this is a Renewal many people have inadvertently paid the money ( $237 for two years ! ) thinking it's a Domainz or other registrar invoice. I'm not questioning the legality of this , as I am no expert, how ever im interested to know how so many of my clients and myself ended up with these letters? Anyone else experienced these letters or perhaps had clients pay for what they thought was a valid renewal? Best Regards Matthew G Brown Managing Director B & R Holdings LIMITED Nelson, New Zealand Ph: 027 4807731 Http://www.brh.co.nz _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog DISCLAIMER: The content of this email is confidential and may contain legally privileged information intended only for the individual or entity named above. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that the use, distribution and publication of the above information is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact Domainz by returning the email and destroying the original. Thank you.

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