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Mail problem
by Gordon Findlay 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Folks: I wonder if anyone can help. Last night I upgraded our name server (ns.cce.ac.nz) to the latest BIND. SInce then we've had intermittant problems receiving email. Now I've reverted to the previous version: still got problems. The setup is: name server ns.cce.ac.nz 202.36.178.69 mail server mailbox.cce.ac.nz 202.36.178.67 we connect through xtra, but have our own domain and mail servers. traceroute is stopped at our firewall. Every name server that I check has the correct records (well, I think they are correct) except that for a few hours dns1.clear.net.nz had the wrong MX record. Taking xtra as an example: only one out of many test messages has reached us. One message from paradise.net.nz got here - in three hours. Others have not. I'd have thought there might be a routing problem - but I can telent to the boxes from outside this site. Folk from clear, telecom and domainz have all looked at the problem, and been a great help, but we seem to be no nearer a solution. One suggested trying nznog Can anyone suggest where I might start looking now? It's been 24 hours and I'm puzzled. Thanks for any suggestions. You might not be able to mail me: but gordonf(a)xtra.co.nz is still working :-) --- Gordon Findlay Manager, Information Technology Services Christchurch College of Education, PO Box 31065, Christchurch, New Zealand email: gordon.findlay(a)cce.ac.nz phone +64 3 343 7766, mobile 021 358 788 -These views are mine: the College may agree, by coincidence.- --------- 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: Wireless APE.
by derek 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

It is not the equipment that determines the output, but the 2.4Ghz spectrum regulations being 4 watts. It will cost you more for a WaveLan setup as Lucent's outdoor solution (COR and ROR)does not conform to 802.11. They have deployed there own proprietary polling system and they will not work with any other vendor. So if you want to use a Linux box at home to save cost you should go with Cisco, also the drivers for the Cisco card come prepackaged in the latest Linux distributions. Derek Gaeth Radionet Ltd -----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Matt Camp Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:54 PM To: derek Cc: 'James Tyson'; 'nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' Subject: RE: Wireless APE. On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, derek wrote: > The sky tower is about the worst place in Auckland to do wireless from. The > amount of noise coming off the sky tower is very high. You will only be able > to cover a small area with each Cisco bridge due to interference around the > CBD. The Cisco gear works in the 2.4Ghz Unlicensed band. The max power > output is 4 watts at the antenna. The best thing on your home end would be a > Linux box with a PCI cradle and Cisoc PCI card. Are there any better, higher-power equivalent units? I guess cost is also a consideration here. Anyone know much about WaveLan? I've only ever played with it in an intranet type setup. --- Matt Camp --------- 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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Reminder: NZ NOC contact list
by Simon Lyall 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

As people may have heard this was offline for a week or two due to hardware failure. Anyway it's been backup for a few weeks again so I thought I'd remind people where it is. http://www.usenet.net.nz/noc/ Currently I have most major ISPs listed except for the Telecom group of companyies, anybody there who is able to give people a nudge could they please do so. Perhaps a pointer to the list could be included in this list's monthly posting. Please send any comments, updates or corrections to me or you can use the form on the page. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | | 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

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APE peering party....
by Matthew Grant 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Hi HTere! I am currently the Network Administrator for Plain Communications (http://www.plain.co.nz/) in Christchurch. We have been an ISP from almost the start of public Internet service in the South Island, and host approx 200 WWW sites which include major corporate entities. We formed the first peering at APE with Clear Net when it started over a year ago. Next Friday we should have our router in the skytower upgraded to Zebra software (http://www.zebra.org/) from gated which means that we will be able to peer with much greater facility at APE. Could the parties interested in forming peering arrangements with us please get back to me, or my protege Mr Ben Aitchison <ben(a)plain.co.nz> who will be taking over next week. I will still be available from time to time when needed. Thank you for your cooperation. Cheers, Matthew Grant --------- 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: bind versions
by Jason Hunter 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Peter, All This is to confirm that the following CLEAR Net Name servers ns1.clear.net.nz ns2.clear.net.nz have been upgraded to Bind version 8.2.3 as of immediately. Jason CLEAR Net -----Original Message----- From: Peter Mott [mailto:peter(a)2day.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:32 AM To: Joe Abley; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: RE: bind versions > These are the authoritative nameservers for NZ. > > dig version.bind chaos txt shows: If you have a dig around major nz ISP's you find very few have upgraded (or they have set version.bind to answer with an old version to fool us all). Heads down people! > gorgon.xtra.co.nz "8.1.2" > ns1.clear.net.nz "8.2.2-P5" > ns2.clear.net.nz "8.2.2-P5" > ns1.dns.net.nz "BIND 8" > ns99.waikato.ac.nz "BIND 8" > rata.vuw.ac.nz <no answer> > mx.nsi.nasa.gov "8.2.2-P7" Regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2day.com -/- --------- 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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Re: APE peering party.... Plain AS number and details
by Matthew Grant 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Hi! Forgo a few things like our ASN No $%-{.... NB Plain's IP number is 192.203.154.12 on APE, and we are AS 9559 Here is our information. Note the Auckland local subnets 202.36.174.100/30 and 202.36.174.104/29 that are there to cope with our backbone to Christchurch going to a backup connection. ip prefix-list plain-communications description Plain Communications Ltd, contact: ben(a)plain.co.nz ip prefix-list plain-communications seq 5 permit 202.36.174.0/24 ip prefix-list plain-communications seq 10 permit 202.49.64.0/21 ip prefix-list plain-communications seq 15 permit 202.49.140.0/24 ip prefix-list plain-communications seq 20 permit 202.36.174.100/30 ip prefix-list plain-communications seq 25 permit 202.36.174.104/29 > > Hi, > > Attica would be interested in peering with yourselves, AS 9790, 192.203.154.46, prefix > list as below. > > ip prefix-list attica-networks description Attica Communications Ltd, contact: brent.mcdowell(a)attica.co.nz > ip prefix-list attica-networks seq 5 permit 202.180.96.0/19 > ip prefix-list attica-networks seq 10 permit 202.180.64.0/18 le 19 > ip prefix-list attica-networks seq 15 permit 210.55.254.0/24 > > if you could send me your prefix list/AS, then I can setup our end this > afternoon.. > > cheers > > --Brent > > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Matthew Grant wrote: > > > Hi HTere! > > > > I am currently the Network Administrator for Plain Communications > > (http://www.plain.co.nz/) in Christchurch. We have been an ISP from almost > > the start of public Internet service in the South Island, and host approx 200 > > WWW sites which include major corporate entities. We formed the first peering > > at APE with Clear Net when it started over a year ago. > > > > Next Friday we should have our router in the skytower upgraded to Zebra > > software (http://www.zebra.org/) from gated which means that we will be able > > to peer with much greater facility at APE. > > > > Could the parties interested in forming peering arrangements with us please > > get back to me, or my protege Mr Ben Aitchison <ben(a)plain.co.nz> who will be > > taking over next week. I will still be available from time to time when > > needed. > > > > Thank you for your cooperation. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew Grant > > > > > > --------- > > 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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bind versions
by Joe Abley 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

These are the authoritative nameservers for NZ. dig version.bind chaos txt shows: gorgon.xtra.co.nz "8.1.2" ns1.clear.net.nz "8.2.2-P5" ns2.clear.net.nz "8.2.2-P5" ns1.dns.net.nz "BIND 8" ns99.waikato.ac.nz "BIND 8" rata.vuw.ac.nz <no answer> mx.nsi.nasa.gov "8.2.2-P7" ISC says: If you are running any version of BIND version 8, we recommend you upgrade to BIND version 8.2.3 for security reasons http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html Some upgrades may be in order. 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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Spammer termination: Central Pacific Imports Ltd. (car.co.nz) (fwd)
by Alan Brown 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

This actually happened a couple of weeks ago, but usenet.net.nz has been down so I've been unable to post the notice. Central Pacific Imports Ltd, also known as Andre Blenkiron motors. We have terminated service to cpiltd(a)manawatu.gen.nz - this is/was the listed domain contact for cars.co.nz and a group of other domains registered through Ihug and elsewhere. The car.co.nz (*) domain has been spamming via email and usenet for some time, mainly from Xtra dialups. As soon as we became aware of it(**) and the records linking it to our domain(***), we suspended the account and required that they sign a written agreement to cease posting unsolicited commercial email and Usenet posting from any ISP in order to regain their account on ours. Central Pacific Imports have refused to do so - this is a fairly good indication that they know they're spamming and have every indication of continuing to do so. CPI currently have a Paradise.net.nz connection, judging from attempts to access the disabled account. (*) No relation to cars.co.nz (**) Spam arriving in our traps on November 27th originating from Xtra, confirmed by Dejanews searches. (***) Whois lookups while preparing LARTS showed cpiltd(a)manawatu.gen.nz as the domain contact for this and several related domains. As can be seen here, Central Pacific Imports have changed their DNS contact. [whois.geektools.com] Query: car.co.nz Registry: whois.domainz.net.nz Results: % Domainz D.R.S. Automated Registrar Interface % D.R.S. users confirm on submission their agreement to all published Terms % Last revision: 22-02-2000 - DRS-RL-v1.00 % domain_name_status: 01 Current registrar: The Internet Group Limited domain_name: car.co.nz domain_datecreated: 23/01/97 domain_datelastmodified: 9/01/01 10:04:01 holder_name: Central Pacific Imports Limited holder_contact: Andre Blenkiron holder_phone: 64 6 3584228 holder_fax: 64 6 3588795 holder_email: andre(a)car.co.nz holder_address: 391 Rangitikei St holder_addr_citycountry: PALMERSTON NORTH,NEW ZEALAND technical_contact: The Internet Group Ltd technical_contact_phone: +64 9 358 5067 technical_contact_fax: +64 9 358 4112 technical_contact_email: soa(a)ihug.co.nz technical_contact_address_line_1: PO Box 7281 technical_contact_address_line_2: Wellesley Street ns_name_1: ns2.ihug.net.nz ns_ip_1: ns_name_2: ns1.ihug.net.nz ns_ip_2: ns_name_3: ns-au.ihug.net.nz ns_ip_3: --------- 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: Wireless APE.
by derek 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

That is true, They do conform to 802.11 which is the 2.4Ghz standard for indoors. It is good up to about 2500 feet away from the transmission site. The further out you go the slower the connection will run. Saying that I have seen 15kms out of this stuff, but you may only get about 500k. It depends on the quality of the install and the antenna you use. If you wanted to do it with Lucent buy a Lucent AP not ROR or COR . I have some for sale second hand. Also have some old bronze cards(10 and 2Mb) if anyone wants them. Derek Gaeth Network Manager Radionet Ltd 72 Paul Matthews Rd, Albany, Auckland +64 9 414 0300 +64 21 649173 -----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley(a)automagic.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 4:51 AM To: derek Cc: 'Matt Camp'; 'nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' Subject: Re: Wireless APE. On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:27:04PM +1300, derek wrote: > It is not the equipment that determines the output, but the 2.4Ghz spectrum > regulations being 4 watts. It will cost you more for a WaveLan setup as > Lucent's outdoor solution (COR and ROR)does not conform to 802.11. They > have deployed there own proprietary polling system and they will not work > with any other vendor. So if you want to use a Linux box at home to save > cost you should go with Cisco, also the drivers for the Cisco card come > prepackaged in the latest Linux distributions. Lucent's bronze, silver and gold 11M turbo cards all talk 802.11b; last time I looked there was nothing to stop anybody using them for outdoor applications. --------- 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: Wireless APE.
by derek 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

The sky tower is about the worst place in Auckland to do wireless from. The amount of noise coming off the sky tower is very high. You will only be able to cover a small area with each Cisco bridge due to interference around the CBD. The Cisco gear works in the 2.4Ghz Unlicensed band. The max power output is 4 watts at the antenna. The best thing on your home end would be a Linux box with a PCI cradle and Cisoc PCI card. Cheers, Derek Gaeth Radionet Ltd -----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of James Tyson Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:10 AM To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Wireless APE. Just out of interest, how many people on this list; a) live in Auckland. b) have line of sight to the sky tower. c) would be willing to help chip in for a Cisco Aironet 340 wireless RIG, or similar to their home. It's just this crazy idea I had, and I figure the more people the cheaper it is. Cheers. James Tyson --- Samizdat New Media Solutions --------- 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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