Hi everyone,
Citylink's official Debian mirror (ftp.nz.debian.org) is apparently
again broken (not even listening on port 80 from where I'm sitting).
Would anyone be seriously interested in donating rack space, national
transit, or hardware to the cause of another official Debian mirror for
NZ?
Having reliable and cheap access to free software projects like Debian
is critically important, and having a second official mirror seems like
a no-brainer to me.
I am very happy to donate my time to admin and monitor any equipment
provided for this, and to liase with the Debian project as required.
Perhaps Citylink could give us some insight in to the traffic levels
their existing mirrors see?
--
Michael Fincham
Hi All,
Currently ( all? ) the NZIX route servers insert the exchange ASN into
routes that are advertised to the route servers.
The exchanges that we peer with overseas such as Any2 in LA, Equinix
Sydney and NSW-IX plus the new AKL-IX exchange do not insert the
exchange ASN into advertisements, so all else being equal the paths from
those exchanges are shorter than routes from APE and WIX by one AS hop.
There are other NZ networks like us that peer at APE and/or WIX and also
peer at overseas exchanges and to have optimal traffic flows with them,
we put in one off hacks per network. The least ugly ways of doing this
for us work fine but create per peer config that must be maintained.
Ideally we can put bilateral peering up at APE and WIX so that the extra
AS hop goes away but sometimes bilateral peering is impractical due to
the other networks peering policy.
I can't think of a reason why putting the exchange ASN in the path helps
anyone. Is this just a hangover from the old days? Or is there some
legitimate reason that it should be like this?
Cheers,
--
Lincoln Reid Head of Networks
ACSData - AS18119 lincoln(a)acsdata.co.nz
Phone: +64 4 939 2200 Fax: +64 4 939 2201
Hi,
The IANA AS Numbers registry has been updated to reflect the allocation of the following blocks to RIPE NCC:
64396-64495 Assigned by RIPE NCC 2016-07-29
204288-205211 Assigned by RIPE NCC 2016-07-29
205212-206235 Assigned by RIPE NCC 2016-07-29
206236-207259 Assigned by RIPE NCC 2016-07-29
The allocation was made in accordance with the Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/global-policy-asn-blocks-2010-09-21-en
The 16-bit AS Number pool has now been exhausted. Future allocations will be made from the 32-bit pool.
You can find the IANA AS Numbers registry at:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xml
Regards,
Selina Harrington
IANA Senior Specialist
ICANN
In case people are interested in heading across the ditch for AusNOG in
September.
Mark.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [AusNOG] AusNOG 2016 programme and initial call for lightning talks
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:29:24 +0930
From: Mark Prior <mrp(a)mrp.net>
To: ausnog(a)lists.ausnog.net <ausnog(a)lists.ausnog.net>
Hello,
The AusNOG web site has now been updated with the AusNOG 2016 programme.
See <http://www.ausnog.net/events/ausnog-2016> for more details on the
programme and abstracts for most of the presentations.
As you will notice this year we will again be having a short lightning
talk session. Anyone registered to attend AusNOG is welcome to submit a
proposal to <organisers(a)ausnog.net> by 29 August 2016.
A lightning talk is a short presentation on topics that are either too
short, too timely or too preliminary to include on the general agenda,
or even just something to stir up some discussion. There is no
requirement for slides. As we tried to cram in as many presentations as
possible this year time for lightning talks is limited and so we may
need to restrict them to 5 minutes (or just run late :-)
The organisers would like to especially encourage people who haven't
spoken at an AusNOG before to consider having a go.
Kind Regards,
Mark Prior
(For the AusNOG Board)
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Sent on behalf of Microsoft:
Hello Auckland Peering Exchange Members,
Microsoft will be performing maintenance on our connection into the exchange today, Tuesday 7/26 at 2pm local.
You will see your sessions to AS 8075 drop while we complete our work. We will do our best to minimize impact.
Thank you for your patience and thank you for peering with Microsoft.
Microsoft AS8075
peering(a)microsoft.com<mailto:peering@microsoft.com>
Would affect traffic to the Microsoft datacenters in Singapore and Hong Kong, think we have some bw on that leg. Alternate routes via JPN or Guam are much slower ☹
Sent from my Windows 10 phone
From: Don Stokes<mailto:don@daedalus.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, 22 July 2016 5:05 PM
To: NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz<mailto:NZNOG@list.waikato.ac.nz>
Subject: [nznog] Perth to Singapore link cut
I just got a note from Vocus indicating a failure in the Perth to
Singapore link. Hasn't had too much impact - the Japan based
M.root-servers.net is showing a longish RTT routing via California
(going from ~205ms to ~265ms). Not sure if it affects anyone in NZ other
than Vocus-connected sites.
Looks like the cut occurred around 14:53 today (NZST).
-- don
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I just got a note from Vocus indicating a failure in the Perth to
Singapore link. Hasn't had too much impact - the Japan based
M.root-servers.net is showing a longish RTT routing via California
(going from ~205ms to ~265ms). Not sure if it affects anyone in NZ other
than Vocus-connected sites.
Looks like the cut occurred around 14:53 today (NZST).
-- don
Hi everyone.
I am posting here as a last resort and this isn't really relevant to to
this group, but more than anything I am hoping someone here may have
some more knowledge about cellular technology than me. I have a customer
that has lost a fairly expensive Buoy off the cost of Otago and it's GPS
has stopped working. Vodafone have confirmed they are still seeing it
connected to their cell tower (2G only) but the Vodafone helpdesk people
aren't particularly helpful when we start asking them about options for
finding a rough location at sea so we have an idea where to look for it.
Does anyone know if it's possible to triangulate a location of a
cellular device these days? Is there a cutoff distance from the tower
that the device will no longer be able to connect (e.g. if there is this
helps narrow the search area at least)? Does anyone have an contact
details for someone at VF that might be able to help?
If anyone has any info that might help, please contact me off list.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
--
Travis Baird | Managing Director
Unifone NZ ltd <http://unifone.net.nz>
a. 7 Kitchener St, Dunedin
<https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=7+kitchener+st+dunedin>
e. travis(a)unifone.net.nz <mailto:travis@unifone.net.nz>
m. 029 763 8911 <tel:+64297638911>
t. 03 974 8233 <tel:+6439748233>
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