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soa@waikato.ac.nz
by Patrick O'Brien 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

Peter, I've spoken with Waikato, who acknowledge receipt of one email to soa(a)waikato from you yesterday mid-morning. As I understand it that email was for information purposes only, and did not require an operational actions in the .nz Register. If the other e-mails that you say were sent to Waikato are to do with operations of the .nz Register, then can I ask that you forward them direct to me in this instance. Typically we would expect to see enquiries being sent to, 4service(a)domainz.net.nz If those other e-mails have nothing to do with the operations of the .nz Register, then I'll bow out and let you liaise with your normal contacts at Waikato. My regards, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of 2Day Operations Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 3:17 PM To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: soa(a)waikato.ac.nz Has anybody experienced any difficulty getting responses from above recently? We have sent a couple of messages to the address in the last week or so and dont appear to get an answer. When Rex was on board we got a reply within minutes on most days. Perhaps that alias is no longer monitored? 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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soa@waikato.ac.nz
by 2Day Operations 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

Has anybody experienced any difficulty getting responses from above recently? We have sent a couple of messages to the address in the last week or so and dont appear to get an answer. When Rex was on board we got a reply within minutes on most days. Perhaps that alias is no longer monitored? 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

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ANNOUNCE: Oscar James Abley
by Chris Wedgwood 05 Jan '00

05 Jan '00

Oscar James Abley, 8lb1 born 6 Jan 7:55. Mum and baby doing fine. Dad sounding very happy (and very tired). Congratulations Joe! -cw --------- 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: GMT Passes smoothly
by Arron Scott 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Our experience was similar to Jamie's with outbound traffic more than three times the usual, we shifted a little traffic just in case but it dropped rapidly after midnight. Overall it was a quiter 24 hours inbound than usual. As for the timestamp on my mail ... it's my Linux machine I only ever use when I'm offsite, and you're lucky it doesn't say 1984 !!! Arron On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Joe Abley wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:34:11AM +1300, Arron Scott wrote: > > Well NetGate has also withstood GMT with no hitches in reporting or > > traffic. Really our only issue was huge outbound traffic last night, other > > than that all's well. > > How much more traffic than usual? Do you have any numbers? > > Just interested :) > > > 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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DNS Spring Cleaning -- Final four full days
by Patrick O' Brien 02 Jan '00

02 Jan '00

Happy New Year to you all, The DNS Spring Cleaning Project has now entered its final four full days. http://www.domainz.net.nz/newsstand/stories/SpringCleaning.html The program specially developed for analysis of the .nz domain space expires by January 7, so there is still time to take advantage right now. PROGRESS SO FAR ================ To-date, the results have been impressive. By last week, over 700 individual visitors had been to the site to download almost 550 copies of the special .nz program. Our surveys tell us that you've made changes to you DNS configurations that have fixed around 4,000 errors that the .nz program picked up. That is tremendous, so thanks. We've also seen significant reductions in the number of .nz domain names showing errors, moving from 28% of the .nz Register down to 25%. More detailed results of the last survey can be found at the Men and Mice site, http://sc.menandmice.com/statistic.html .nz TECHNICAL CONTACT DETAILS ============================ On a separate but connected note, we emailed all technical contacts listed in the .nz DNS 2 weeks ago with some startling results -- there was a bounce rate around 14% !!!! One purpose of the Technical contact is to be reachable so as to deal with any technical issues relating to the hosting of a domain -- this cannot happen where the email address is bouncing :() The key reasons that we could ascertain for this high rate were three fold:- 1. Using personal names -------------------------------------------- There are a considerable number of ISP's that use an individual person's name (eg fred(a).. or mary(a)...) rather than a functional name (eg dns(a)... or soa(a)...), and most bounced mail came from the former category. ISP's should consider the use of functional names for their technical contact rather than individual names, as the former have much more "permanence". 2. Name Holder listed as technical contact ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are a few ISP's that put the Name Holder's name as the technical contact and this does not appear to be updated as the Name Holder's details change. Moreover, most Name Holders who fell into this category and responded to our email knew precious little about the technical details of hosting their domain name. The technical contact should be someone who understands the technical issues of a domain name. Typically we would expect to see the organisation with the technical wherewithal to host the domain name shown in this field. ISP's should check to ensure that they list the appropriate technical contact person. 3. Not keeping details current ------------------------------------------------ The final category reflected organisations that had not kept current the domain name information. In many cases, it followed the move of a domain name from one ISP to another. Generally the IP details had been updated to make the domain work, but no other details (Name Holder, Billing, Technical contact) had changed. ISP's need to ensure that they do keep all domain details up-to-date, particularly when a domain name is moved from another ISP. My thanks for your time, My regards, PATRICK J O'BRIEN P.S. === Remember, there are only 4 more days to use the special .nz DNS program. Do take the time to use the program to check out the health of your .nz domain names, http://sc.menandmice.com/getit.html Fax: (04) 473-4569 Voice: (04) 473-4567 Mail: P.O.BRIEN(a)DOMAINZ.NET.NZ Web: http://www.DOMAINZ.NET.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: Routing problems at clix
by Richard Naylor 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

At 09:28 pm 31/12/99 +1300, you wrote: >On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Joe Abley wrote: >> This is also a singularly bad night to expect anybody to make any >> changes to fix a problem you've been seeing for a week :) > >True, whos up tonight anyway? I've already got 1 radio station ringing me >to tell them if the internet has fallen over at midnight :) > There are 2 of us here at CityLink tidying our email piles, talking over holidays etc. I've been scanning our network thru the day and a few hosts have been removed or are getting slow to respond. We'll be here til around 1 or 2 (when my son gets back from a disco for the ride home). rich richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz This mail message contains information that is confidential and which may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, distribute or copy this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and erase this mail. --------- 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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2000
by Hamish MacEwan 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

Best wishes for 2000 to you. Hamish. PS "except!?" Honestly. -- Any time you get a mouthful of hot soup, the next thing you do will be wrong. -- Zall's Law --------- 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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GMT Passes smoothly
by Arron Scott 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

Well NetGate has also withstood GMT with no hitches in reporting or traffic. Really our only issue was huge outbound traffic last night, other than that all's well. God bless Cisco ... and all who sail in her ;) Arron Scott Telecom NetGate --------- 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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Anyone know of any real issues aside from PSTN congestion?
by Chris Wedgwood 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

Out of curiosity... Does anyone know if any real problems aside form heavy PSTN congestion? Presumably these issues would be also paranoia induced such as perhaps power-spikes cause by everyone testing the lights at 00:01... (perhaps there is an equivalent here with water supply?) So far the publicity I've seen has all be along the lines of `business' as usual -- were/are operators elsewhere in the world made aware of issues such as the PSTN congestion? -cw --------- 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: Routing problems at clix
by Sam Sargeant 31 Dec '99

31 Dec '99

> True, whos up tonight anyway? NetLink/Telstra have a few of us looking after the rubber band here. If it snaps, then we are ready to spring into action.. (Or to the pub!) Even if things go smoothly, I'm going to be here until 2:30am at least. How long is everyone else going to be working? ##----Sam-Sargeant---------NetLink-Ltd--------Systems-Developer----## until($x>=40){print$"x$x;for('#4V%M','+(%-A<F=E86YT("T`','%($IU<W0`', '(($%N;W1H97(`','.(%!E<FP(a)2&%C:V5R(0H`'){print unpack('u*',$_)}$x+=2} ##.................................................................## --------- 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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