The trusted guardian of NZ Information Assets. So where do they host this important guardian of our assets, of course they would host it here in Wellington wouldn’t they, maybe a backup in Auckland Serenity:~ alexander$ traceroute ncsc.govt.nz traceroute to ncsc.govt.nz (199.83.134.194), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 172.31.2.1 (172.31.2.1) 0.548 ms 0.215 ms 0.191 ms 2 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.324 ms 0.296 ms 0.275 ms 3 113.197.96.18 (113.197.96.18) 4.058 ms 3.873 ms 4.489 ms 4 103.9.216.18 (103.9.216.18) 10.866 ms 10.734 ms 27.593 ms 5 103.9.216.19 (103.9.216.19) 10.699 ms 10.737 ms 10.956 ms 6 203.167.218.185 (203.167.218.185) 13.539 ms 11.339 ms 10.953 ms 7 ge-0-2-0-914.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net (203.98.42.17) 11.106 ms 11.315 ms 10.950 ms 8 unknown.telstraglobal.net (134.159.174.37) 14.115 ms unknown.telstraglobal.net (134.159.174.41) 13.334 ms unknown.telstraglobal.net (134.159.174.37) 14.271 ms 9 i-0-0-4-1.tlot-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net (202.84.142.106) 136.672 ms i-0-0-4-0.tlot-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net (202.84.142.118) 138.917 ms i-0-6-4-1.tlot-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net (202.84.142.114) 138.757 ms 10 i-0-4-0-0.eqla01.bi.telstraglobal.net (202.84.251.174) 136.206 ms i-0-4-0-7.eqla01.bi.telstraglobal.net (202.40.149.254) 137.496 ms i-0-4-0-0.eqla01.bi.telstraglobal.net (202.84.251.174) 137.301 ms 11 nlayer-peer.eqla01.pr.telstraglobal.net (134.159.61.42) 143.708 ms 136.787 ms 140.136 ms 12 ae0-110g.cr1.lax1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.127.137) 138.668 ms ae0-110g.cr1.lax1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.127.141) 137.965 ms ae0-110g.cr1.lax1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.127.137) 136.064 ms 13 xe-5-3-0.cr1.iah1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.142.121) 167.796 ms 167.996 ms 168.156 ms 14 xe-3-1-1.cr1.dfw1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.142.3) 171.539 ms 194.181 ms 193.122 ms 15 xe-0-2-1.cr1.ord1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.142.4) 190.842 ms 190.634 ms 190.443 ms 16 ae0-60g.cr2.ord1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.111.154) 191.285 ms 190.151 ms 189.922 ms 17 ae2-20g.ar1.ord6.us.nlayer.net (69.31.110.254) 192.570 ms 195.793 ms 195.315 ms 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * mmmmm. that looks like a long trip to Wellington or Auckland Whois that IP: Serenity:~ alexander$ whois 199.83.134.194 # # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use # available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html # # # Query terms are ambiguous. The query is assumed to be: # "n 199.83.134.194" # # Use "?" to get help. # # # The following results may also be obtained via: # http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=199.83.134.194?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2 # NetRange: 199.83.128.0 - 199.83.135.255 CIDR: 199.83.128.0/21 OriginAS: AS19551 NetName: INCAPSULA NetHandle: NET-199-83-128-0-1 Parent: NET-199-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment RegDate: 2011-01-14 Updated: 2012-02-24 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-199-83-128-0-1 OrgName: Incapsula Inc OrgId: INCAP-5 Address: 3500 SOUTH DUPONT HIGHWAY City: Dover StateProv: DE PostalCode: 19901 Country: US RegDate: 2010-09-15 Updated: 2014-02-25 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/INCAP-5 OrgAbuseHandle: INCAP1-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Incapsula AbuseDesk OrgAbusePhone: +1-866-250-7659 OrgAbuseEmail: abuse(a)incapsula.com OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/INCAP1-ARIN OrgTechHandle: INCAP2-ARIN OrgTechName: Incapsula Operations OrgTechPhone: +1-866-250-7659 OrgTechEmail: ip(a)incapsula.com OrgTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/INCAP2-ARIN OrgNOCHandle: INCAP2-ARIN OrgNOCName: Incapsula Operations OrgNOCPhone: +1-866-250-7659 OrgNOCEmail: ip(a)incapsula.com OrgNOCRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/INCAP2-ARIN # # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use # available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html # Serenity:~ alexander$ hmmmm, Delaware, now thats a funny place for it. It doesn’t seem to be any CDN or anything, I wonder if they are just going best price for their hosting, or does this path lead through the 5 Eyes network? Maybe our network lords and masters will be telling us to embed our network systems in foreign countries as part of our new approvals. Regards Alexander Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited alexander(a)neilson.net.nz 021 329 681 022 456 2326
