That does appear to be the reason. Barry forwarded me a doco explaining why Telstra has done it. Ah well, I guess it'll be the same worldwide in a few days. :) Erin Salmon Managing Director Unleash Computers Ltd Mobile: 021 877 913 Landline: 03 365 1273 www.unleash.co.nz -----Original Message----- From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha(a)saarinen.org] Sent: 4 November 2005 7:37 p.m. To: Erin Salmon - Unleash Computers Ltd Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Inspire Net name servers Erin Salmon - Unleash Computers Ltd wrote:
Hear hear Barry!
Telecom have gone and started something here. De-peering is definitely worse than being anal about your DNS, but I think it stinks. The Internet in NZ has lost a lot of it's former free love. :P Us down here in Christchurch pay an almighty sum to a handful of providers to get bandwidth down here, and we don't put these kinds of restrictions in place. In Auckland where bandwidth flows like water, they really must be desperate to save some traffic and hardware costs.
I guess the customers don't see the backhanded business that goes on in
In Auckland were bandwidth flows... like what? the
technical world, so nobody is loosing face over it. Perhaps Juha could write it up. ;)
No no no... I don't think it'll matter much in the long run. This might have had some bearing on Inspire's decision: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/24/dns_security_survey/ -- Juha