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Re: What's the xtra contact for spam (aka: abuse@xtra)
by Mark Foster 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

Yup.. didnt help that Ihugs New Fandangled Transparent Proxies just 'suddenly' started ICMPing the crap out of me.. I seem to recall failing to get a straight answer out of Ihug Abuse untill id sent in at least 3 or 4 seperate (and loud) complaints. Ive run the abuse box for a couple of ISPs now Glen - so yes, ive learnt a bit since I stopped using Ihug for my internet access - but one thing I have learnt is not to ignore customers. A couple of decent, polite responses (which may or may not include things like "This is outside of our control, please do not report further abuse of this nature to us") work a lot well than a stoney silence, which used to originate from Ihug Abuse far too often. If you educate your customers theyre less likely to come back to you with the same issues. Ihug Abuse has improved somewhat over the last year or two, fortunately. :) Not bad, especially considering staff turnover. Mark. (I got my Ihug account when I was 16 and barely knew what TCP/IP was. I got my first DoS-incurred BSOD 6 days after I upgraded my DX40 from Win 3.11 to Win95B - Thats a steep learning curve for someone who is NOT a natural talent. You gotta learn somehow, dont you?) At 11:12 29/04/02 +1200, Glen Wilson wrote: >Most likely they closed it because of the amount of BlackIce logs people >thought were "hacking" attempts. > >I remember when I looked after an abuse mailbox and atleast 4 a week would >come from you Mark. > >Glen Wilson >Senior Engineer and Administrator >Network Operations Shift Supervisor >Ihug, Auckland, New Zealand > >On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Mark Foster wrote: > > > Thatd be unusual - My comms with them has always been that they have to > > wait for the log files to get parsed, which means the most recent entry is > > at least half a day old... > > > > Since when is admins@ a standard for abuse complaints anyway? :P > > > > abuse(a)xtra.co.nz would be the most appropriate address to use. (Im glad > > they reactivated it, whos bright idea was it to close that box?) > > > > > > At 10:43 29/04/02 +1200, Simon Lyall wrote: > > >On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jean-Francois Pirus wrote: > > > > What's the current xtra contact for spam (aka: abuse(a)xtra) > > > > > > > > admins(a)team.xtra.co.nz just bounces. > > > > > >abuse(a)xtra.co.nz works okay. > > > > > >I just sent them a complaint regarding a customer of theirs spamming and > > >they replied back to be saying the customer had been delt with within > > >about 30 minutes. > > > > > > > > >-- > > >Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz > > >Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz > > >ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: > http://www.darkmere.gen.nz > > > > > >- > > >To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > >where the body of your message reads: > > >unsubscribe nznog > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > where the body of your message reads: > > unsubscribe nznog > > - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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What's the xtra contact for spam (aka: abuse@xtra)
by Jean-Francois Pirus 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

What's the current xtra contact for spam (aka: abuse(a)xtra) admins(a)team.xtra.co.nz just bounces. Thanks. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: What's the xtra contact for spam (aka: abuse@xtra)
by Mark Foster 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

Thatd be unusual - My comms with them has always been that they have to wait for the log files to get parsed, which means the most recent entry is at least half a day old... Since when is admins@ a standard for abuse complaints anyway? :P abuse(a)xtra.co.nz would be the most appropriate address to use. (Im glad they reactivated it, whos bright idea was it to close that box?) At 10:43 29/04/02 +1200, Simon Lyall wrote: >On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jean-Francois Pirus wrote: > > What's the current xtra contact for spam (aka: abuse(a)xtra) > > > > admins(a)team.xtra.co.nz just bounces. > >abuse(a)xtra.co.nz works okay. > >I just sent them a complaint regarding a customer of theirs spamming and >they replied back to be saying the customer had been delt with within >about 30 minutes. > > >-- >Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz >Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz >ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz > >- >To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz >where the body of your message reads: >unsubscribe nznog - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Internet Name Protection Pty Ltd
by bob＠brockhurst.co.nz 23 Apr '02

23 Apr '02

As many of you will be aware there seems to be another bulk snail mail from one Internet Name Protection Pty Ltd to .co.nz name holders offering to register hitherto unregistered names. Such names can be simply registered by them for $NZ125pa ! Oddly the name holder for (internetnameprotection.co.nz) seems to be the Internet Name Group (ING) of St Kilda. ING remain suspended as a Domainz .nz provider. Derek Locke (CEO of Domainz) will be issuing a press statement (hopefully later today) discouraging people from sending ING money or having anything to do with them and I would ask you to give your customers a similar message. Domainz will be urgently investigating what other steps can be taken. Robert Gray Chair, Domainz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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WTB : Cisco Routers
by Sahil Gupta - Net4U Limited 22 Apr '02

22 Apr '02

Hello there, Just wondering if anybody on the list is wanting to get rid of any Cisco 2620 or 3652 Routers? Please let me know. Cheers, Sahil - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Way OT: Employment anyone?
by Jim Mann 21 Apr '02

21 Apr '02

Hi all, I do apologies for this way off topic post. If it's considered a massive no-no then maybe 'employment solicitation' could be explicitly included in the list of unacceptable postings! I'm hoping that by posting to people at the coal face I'll get more response than some of the agencies I've been in touch with! Very briefly then: I have: - just got here from the UK & live in Auckland. - worked for 7 years at a University Computer Centre where I: - built/managed WAN to connect 1300 schools in 2 counties, and a - MAN to connect all Universities in the region to the NREN, - Oh yes, the University LAN. - had to sell the 'Internet' to some IT Managers/Principles! (even AFTER a FREE connection!) I have not got: - Asbestos underpants, - any vendor qualifications ( I consider this an asset!) [I do have a degree though] If you know of any current or forthcoming opportunity in the ISP/Carrier area can you let me know? Or anything else in datacomms for that matter! Can I be useful to you? Thank you for your time. Jim. Jim Mann "If you don't ask - you don't get!" CV from www.lancs.ac.uk/~mannje - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Information on Australian telecommunication outages
by Arjen De Landgraaf 21 Apr '02

21 Apr '02

E-Secure-IT has made a calendar of Australian Telecommunication outages available on their website. Access is free. It gives a monthly/daily overview, ongoingly updated, of most planned and unplanned outages in Australia. In addition it gives a very complete and comprehensive update on all global IT security news. Good site to bookmark if you want to know what is happening with your links. Have a look at www.e-secure-it.co.nz Any comments, thoughts on improvements etc. welcome!! Arjen de Landgraaf Co-Logic Security Ltd E-Secure-IT Auckland, New Zealand arjen(a)cologic.co.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: [OT?] The great African internet robbery
by Frank March 21 Apr '02

21 Apr '02

This is an arguement of long standing. In APEC it is known as 'international Internet charging arrangements for services' or ICAIS and in ITU-T as Recommendation D(iii). Precisely the same phenomenon applies to New Zealand and until relatively recently to the whole world, including Europe. Europe now has 'in house' Internet exchanges and a growing volume of indigenous content so that there is less and less reliance on Internet US-centricity. Asia is slowly evolving the same way. Arguments around this matter have been rehearsed on this list previously, when I asked for comment on a New Zealand position to take to the APEC TEL Working Group about two years ago (and received very helpful feedback). My (v. concise) summary of the New Zealand Government position on this matter is as follows: "Noting that NZ has the highest percent of GDP expenditure on telecommunications world-wide (OECD, 2000): we recognise that there is a net economic cost to NZ arising from current charging arrangements, nevertheless, this is not having a perceptible dampening effect on Internet development and use in NZ. Relevant industry opinion in NZ is that there should be no government action taken with respect to the current arrangements." Incidentally, the lack of perceptable effect on Internet development applies throughout Asia as well, in my view. I would love to see a realistic break down of comparative costs to ISPs and to their customers internationally ... I would bet that 90% of end user costs are due to domestic tariff rates and policies.There is now a considerable pile of international policy papers on this matter in the ITU and APEC TEL as well as a number of other international fora. They can be summarised as saying 'no or very little effect, dont regulate' or 'disaster, discrimination, growing digital divide, its not fair, regulate'. Logic argues that there is nothing that can or should be done about it through regulation that would be effective but that does not seem to be having much influence on the international debate. I would be happy to receive (off list) any comments members might want to make on what the NZ Government position should be and I will provide further information on the international debate on request. Frank March Specialist Advisor, IT Policy Group Ministry of Economic Development, PO Box 1473, Wellington, NZ Ph: (+64 4) 474 2908; Fax: (+64 4) 471 2658 > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Wedgwood [SMTP:cw(a)f00f.org] > Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 13:16 > To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: [OT?] The great African internet robbery > > The same argument presumably applies to New Zealand (and Australia) > here. > > What the article fails to mention is there seems to be more interest > on the whole for New Zealanders to access U.S. based content than for > U.S. based users to access New Zealand based content. > > I would guess, if the option were available for parity here, that many > people in the U.S. would simple choose to ignore (cut off) NZ > completely if they had to share an equal part of the cost burden > (remember in a fair world whis would be circuits to Asia, Africa, the > Middle East and Europe), however, I have to wonder what the > incremental cost to the average U.S. based user would be of U.S. based > carriers and suppliers did take half of the cost and could > redistribute the burden over other transit and peer links. > > > > --cw > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1931000/1931120.stm > > [...] > > According to Kenya's Internet Service Providers (ISP) > Association, the continent is being forced by Western > companies to pay the full cost of connecting to worldwide > networks. > > [...] > - > To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > where the body of your message reads: > unsubscribe nznog Any opinions expressed in this message are not necessarily those of the Ministry of Economic Development. This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivery to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this message in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. Please contact the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your computer. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Gigabit Ethernet Networks
by Keith Davidson 18 Apr '02

18 Apr '02

I'd be interested in hearing, off list, from any techies re experiences of upgrading Cat5 ethernet using Gigabit NICs and switches - what sort of real network speed is achievable and what is good equipment to use... Any help appreciated. Thanks Keith Davidson - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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bgp-speaking routing folk at actrix, attica?
by Joe Abley 18 Apr '02

18 Apr '02

If there's a routing person who feels like helping me out with an annoying problem at Actrix or Attica out there, could you drop me a line? Off-list would be fine. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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