Re: [nznog] internet research

4 Feb 2015

      Hi NZNOG community:

Some of you know me, I'm Sebastian Castro, manager for the technical
research group at NZRS.

On 4/02/15 10:38 pm, Callum Barr wrote:
...
Sounds pretty NOGlike to me...
Infact - I would have loved to seen them at the conference.
The main reason why that material wasn't submitted for consideration to
NZNOG is because it didn't exist or it wasn't ready by the call for
papers deadline, which was October 20th. Specifically, the BGP Map was
in final stages of development, the DNS data analysis didn't exist
because it is work from one of our Summer Interns (Aaron Craig), and the
Data Service is an idea we've been maturing in the last 2-3 months as
part of a twist in the development of the National Broadband Map.

Whenever has been possible or relevant, NZRS has presented their work at
NZNOG and we regularly attend or get involved at different capacities,
like assisting with DNSSEC workshop the past two years.

Kind Regards,
...
Callum
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Jonathan Brewer mailto:jon.brewer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jordan,
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Jordan Carter
    mailto:jordan(a)internetnz.net.nz> wrote:
As for the papers being at nznog, the main pitch of this quite
        low-key event has been to university researchers, rather than
        technical community participants. It's a good idea to share this
        set of discussions with a wider community - I hope you agree.
The following are very much of interest to the NZNOG community, and
    other NZNOG attendees from APNIC and ICANN. In fact Broadband Map
    was much discussed by a number of the ISPs in attendance. DNS is a
    mainstay of NZNOG, and Internet topology is something I personally
    spoke about...
Jamie Horrell NZRS- New Zealand Registry Services
The NZRS data service is a collection of over 100 spatial and
    aspatial data sets related to broadband and Internet coverage in New
    Zealand.  The service brings together disparate data sets. The
    majority of data sets are geospatial and accessible via a number of
    web services.  This presentation will introduce the following:
Data sets available via the service
    The data collection and collation process
    Spatial analysis using the service
    Presentation of the data and analysis online
    The presentation will include an example of accessing the service,
    identifying residential broadband availability and presenting it online.
Note: This data service is the base of a project we've been working,
    the National Broadband Map
Aaron Craig NZRS- New Zealand Registry Services
Jumping into a large pool of data
NZRS has access to over two years and half's worth of DNS data from
    the .nz namespace. There are many things lurking within and we've
    been interested in developing ways to detect malicious or weird
    behavior. This presentation will talk about our successes and
    failures in trying to summarise and classify behavior in this
    dataset, and the techniques we've been using.
The presentation will include discussion about:
Challenges in reading the (very messy) DNS data
    The popularity of political party websites throughout election
    yearand how it changed with respect to real-life events
    Heuristics for identifying botnet activity – especially
    algorithmically-generated domains – and the success and application
    of these techniques
    Anomalies and candidate botnet behaviour that we've found lurking in .nz
    Anything interesting or novel we've found!
    Sebastian Castro
NZRS- New Zealand Registry Services
Mapping NZ Internet topology
Although the topic of mapping Internet topology is not new, and
    several attempts have been done, in recent years the interest of
    mapping Internet at country level have appeared. Generally those
    attempts are driven by economic interest (understand the market
    inside a country). NZRS has put some effort on mapping the NZ
    Internet at the BGP and IP level, to understand their structure and
    shed some light into policy discussions in which InternetNZ is involved.
This presentation covers:
Methodology for mapping Internet at the BGP level: RouteViews, IX
    and AS relationships
    A demonstration of the NZ BGP Internet map
    Methodology for mapping Internet at the IP level.
    NOTE: The IP Topology Map is work in progress
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