*NZNOG13 RegistrationsThis year, the 10th year of standalone NZNOG meetups is looking to be a cracker. The conference itself is now sold out but we do have a waitlist and some places may become available. You can sign up to the conference waitlist at: http://nznog.org/register We still have places on the tutorials and workshops, so if you are interested you might want to get in sooner than later. Tutorials - Wednesday the 23rd of January - Mikrotik wireless and routing systems (full day) - APNIC - Internet Resource Management IRMe (half day) - APNIC - DNSSEC (half day) - IPv6 Security - Karl Auer, Into6 (half day with morning and afternoon sessions) - Out of Band Management - OpenGear (half day) Workshops - Monday the 21st - Wednesday the 23rd JanuaryIPV6 BGP Routing - Philip Smith (APNIC) and Daniel Griggs (PCH) This workshop is targeted at engineers and network administrators from both ISPs and SOHO/enterprise networks. - ISP network topology overview - ISP IP Addressing Plan - Introduction of Internet routing infrastructure - 2 Byte and 4 Byte AS Numbers - BGP operation - Understanding BGP metric and path selection process - Configuring BGP within an AS [iBGP, route reflector] - Configuring BGP between ASes [eBGP] - Controlling routing update traffic [prefix list, distribute list, route map] - Route Summarization with BGP - BGP Traffic engineering [MED, Local Pref, AS-Path prepend] It is highly recommended that participants bring their own laptop computers (At least Pentium 4, 1gb Ram, DVD drive, with administrative access to system) to practice the lessons learned during the workshops. DNSSec Workshop - Phil Regnauld (NSRC) and Joe AbleyThe course is designed for network engineers, systems administrators, and anyone who is involved in managing DNS operations. - DNS concepts - BIND (DNS server) and Resolver (DNS client) configurations - Reverse DNS - DNS Security - TSIG - DNS security extensions (DNSSEC) - DNS and IPv6 It's more DNSSEC centric than a DNS operations 101 course. Goals - Learn about the real world threats that exploit DNS weaknesses - Understand the risks you run when your DNS isn't secured - Learn about the security extensions for DNS: DNSSEC - Enable signing & validation in the organisation - Learn about the impact of DNSSEC on one's DNS infrastructure - Help participants take the next step, whether it involves deploying their own signing solution, acquiring a vendor based solution, or using a third party service Topics zone signature, key management, automated DNSSEC management using BIND & OpenDNSSEC, Hardware Security Modules (HSM) presentation on key ceremonies, DNSSEC Practice Statements Sponsors NZNOG are grateful for the support we receive from our sponsors. Platinum Sponsor - Vocus Communications Gold Sponsors - Go Wireless NZ - Internet New Zealand - Network Hardware Resale - Alcatel Lucent - Citylink - Kordia - FX Networks - REANNZ Silver Sponsors - Fortinet - Opengear - Brocade - ISPANZ Bronze Sponsors - Allied Telesis Workshop Sponsor - Internet New Zealand For further information: To register: http://www.nznog.org/register Follow us on Twitter: @NZNOG Susbscribe to the NZNOG mailing list: http://www.nznog.org/mailing-list Visit the conference website: http://nznog.org http://2012.nznog.org.nz/ For general enquiries info(a)nznog.org*