I was around from the week we upgraded NZ from 64k to 128k (bye-bye Proteon), and used to enter all the DNS updates by hand in the .nz domain. I agree John Houlker would probably be the man from a network perspective, he used to lead the team, Rex Croft (DNS), Donald Neal (Caching), Simon Travaglia (BOFH), myself (Network Ops) all generally had the round-coffee-table discussions with him back then. If interested I have some photos of the entire Internet/Uni network diagram (a white-board in the computer room) and of the old .nz DNS server (a Commodore PC10 running BSD), and a few of the original routers etc. Arron *********************************************************************** Arron Scott (CCIE #4099) Phone: +64-9-3551951 Systems Engineer Mobile: +64-27-4883163 Cisco New Zealand mailto:ascott(a)cisco.com http://www.cisco.com *********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Russell Fulton Sent: Saturday, 14 September 2002 10:19 p.m. To: Lin Nah Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz; roger(a)fx.net.nz Subject: Re: NZNOG conference 2003 On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 16:01, Lin Nah wrote:
He's talking about people at Waikato and others who ran Kawaihiko and Tuia Jon Houlker is a name that comes to mind. Rex Croft ran the .nz DNS. Last I heard he was somewhere in Australia. VUW and Waikato were the two places bringing in usenet news into the country. Usenet news feed (and the payment of it) is probably what
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some of the growth of the .nz DNS and kept things manageable for Rex Croft. There's people at vuw and waikato who started the cache farms (I remember a presentation at uniforum in 1995 or earlier about it).
and don't forget Nevil Brownlee and Neil James two other prominent members of Kawaihiko and Tuia who oversaw the early days of the Internet in NZ. I was a relative latecomer in the early '90s. -- Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer The University of Auckland, New Zealand "It aint necessarily so" - Gershwin - 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