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4q98 in-addr.audit notice
by bmanning＠ISI.EDU 24 Sep '98

24 Sep '98

Hello, I am sorry for duplicates that you may receive. This is to let you know that I will be starting the next quarter sweep of the in-addr.arpa tree on 03 oct 1998. I'd appreciate it if you would review http://www.isi.edu/div7/people/bmanning.home/in-addr-audit.html for details. Specifically, I'd appreciate your adding the two referenced probes to your xfernets directives so that a valid audit may proceed. The run may take as long as 600 wall-clock hours. The results will be posted to the web page. A target for this audit run is to attempt to identify DNS version distribution. If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me. If there are others that you feel should be aware, forward the information on to them and/or me. Thank you for your consideration. --bill --------- 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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MX'ing to 127.0.0.1
by Simon Blake 24 Sep '98

24 Sep '98

Hi Folks Over the weekend some fairly disreputable types in the US sent a whole pile of spam out with fake From: lines which resolved to a server I administer in Wellington. Since the hostname in question (city.wellington.net.nz) has no users and doesn't actually receive any legit email, my first response was to MX it to a spare IP# on our network so that I didn't have to deal with the many (~100K) bounce messages. Upon further reflection, in occured to me that an even better technique for avoiding traffic bills would be to MX city.wellington.net.nz to 127.0.0.1, which I did, and all my spam problems have gone away :-). My question - is this a dodgy thing to do, have I missed some critical reason why I shouldn't do this? Cheers Si --------- 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: MX'ing to 127.0.0.1
by Michael Newbery 21 Sep '98

21 Sep '98

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 02:11:09PM +1000, Dean Pemberton wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 03:56:42PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 03:38:16PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote: > > > > > > > Unless the remote site happens to have a machine on their internal > > > > network, reachable by their mail relay, numbered 10.99.98.97 :) > > > > > > 0 chance of having that. (Statistically speaking, allowing for > > > rounding errors). > > > > Guess we're right off the end of the bell curve then :) How about... > > > > 127.0.0.2? > > 'fraid not - there are devices that use 127.0.0.2 as a valid address. To paraphrase the Hitchiker's Guide: "this is some new meaning of the term 'valid' with which I was hitherto unacquainted" I guess what you REALLY want to do is locate the address used by the spammers and MX that. ;-) --------- 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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Regional ISP Operations lists
by John Houlker 17 Sep '98

17 Sep '98

Hi all I have had an enquiry about e-mail lists in New Zealand for ISP operations, with the idea of adding these to a compilation of such lists for the region. The results will be posted on NANOG. It seems to me that NZNOG is a good candidate. What do you think? Would you like NZNOG added to such a list? By the way, NZNOG currently allows posting from "non-members". Are there other NZ ISP operations lists that should be included in such a compilation? John --------- 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: http://www.wix.net.nz/
by Michael Newbery 11 Sep '98

11 Sep '98

It's Friday---I can tell :-) --------- 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: http://www.wix.net.nz/
by Dean Pemberton 10 Sep '98

10 Sep '98

>Is it just our cache, or does http://www.wix.net.nz/ point at a page entitled >"Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club"? > > >Joe Nope it's not you - it seems to look that way from here too. I hope it's not a hint that we should all get out more =) Dean (In his new life as a vendor) --------- 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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http://www.wix.net.nz/
by Joe Abley 10 Sep '98

10 Sep '98

Is it just our cache, or does http://www.wix.net.nz/ point at a page entitled "Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club"? Joe -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.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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{0, 1}.7.202.in-addr.arpa
by Joe Abley 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

Is someone going to take control of these in-addr.arpa zones? They're currently pointing to various strange places: 0.7.202.in-addr.arpa. 35450 NS elrond.otago.ac.nz. 0.7.202.in-addr.arpa. 35450 NS rata.vuw.ac.nz. 0.7.202.in-addr.arpa. 35450 NS gemini.dcc.govt.nz. 1.7.202.in-addr.arpa. 81072 NS gemini.dcc.govt.nz. 1.7.202.in-addr.arpa. 81072 NS elrond.otago.ac.nz. 1.7.202.in-addr.arpa. 81072 NS rata.vuw.ac.nz. These nameservers are (reasonably enough!) not responding to queries on these zones. This makes my traceroutes messy, and we can't have that ;) Joe -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.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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Trouble at NZIX
by Joe Abley 04 Aug '98

04 Aug '98

Hi, We just had a bit of router trouble at NZIX, which should now be fixed. If you've got a minute, could you check connectivity to some well-known CLEAR Net or other CLEAR customer addresses, just to make sure our advertisements are getting through? Joe -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/

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Re: Another Beer?
by Rowan Smith 28 Jul '98

28 Jul '98

I'll be their... I spoke to several people today who all expressed interest as well. I guess it will be a reasonable turn out. -Rowan -----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> To: Chris Wedgwood <chris(a)cybernet.co.nz>; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Another Beer? On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 03:48:51PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: -> On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 05:37:13PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote: -> -> > -> Shall we say Wednesday next week? The 29th? At that same pub? -> > -> What was it called? -> > -> > Galbraiths. -> -> OK - who's still on for this? I will be popping in, but probably not staying for too long... -> (Oh, btw some evil people should learn to emtpy their voice mail...) I emptied it yesterday. It's not my fault I'm a popular guy :) -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.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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