NZNOG July 2016

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50 participants
15 discussions

Anyone interested in donating space / connectivity / kit for a proper NZ Debian mirror?

by Michael Fincham

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

3 years, 1 month

AS paths from NZIX route servers

by Lincoln Reid

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

4 years, 10 months

IANA AS Numbers registry update

by Selina Harrington

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

4 years, 12 months

Fwd: [AusNOG] AusNOG 2016 programme and initial call for lightning talks

by Mark Prior

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) _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG(a)lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog

5 years

Microsoft APE port going into maintenance mode today at 2pm (NZT)

by Peter Tobin

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>

5 years

Re: [nznog] Perth to Singapore link cut

by Regan Murphy

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 _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

5 years

Perth to Singapore link cut

by Don Stokes

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

5 years

Trying to locate a cell device of the coast of Otago

by Travis Baird

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>

5 years

A Leap Second will be added at 2016/12/31 23:59:60 UTC (Security=UNCLASSIFIED)

by HENDERSON MIKE, MR

FYI/A A Leap Second will be added to the world's clocks at 2016/12/31 23:59:59/60 UTC. Owing to the fortuitous operation of the rotating globe, this will happen at lunchtime NZ Time (noon or 13:00, depending on how NZ Summer Time works) on New Year's Day 2017, so will more likely affect our post-prandial nap than interrupt our New Year revels Details below sig block. Happy New Year 2017 :) Mike ______________________________ Mike Henderson Manager Information Systems Policy, Policy & Plans group, CIS Branch New Zealand Defence Force DDI: +64 4 496 0186 | Mobile: +64 21 243 8183 www.nzdf.mil.nz <http://force4nz.mil.nz/> ============================================================ Reformatted from https://datacenter.iers.org/web/guest/eop/-/somos/5Rgv/latest/16 INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE DE L'IERS OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS France Tel: +33 1 40 51 23 35 e-mail: services.iers(a)obspm.fr web: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc Paris, 6 July 2016 Bulletin C 52 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time UTC TIME STEP on the 1st of January 2017 A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2016. The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: * 2016 December 31, 23h 59m 59s * 2016 December 31, 23h 59m 60s * 2017 January 1, 0h 0m 0s The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: * from 2015 July 1, 0h UTC, to 2017 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 36s * from 2017 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 37s Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Christian Bizouard Head Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France The information contained in this Internet Email message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged information, but not necessarily the official views or opinions of the New Zealand Defence Force. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or distribute this message or the information in it. If you have received this message in error, please Email or telephone the sender immediately.

5 years

Large increase in traffic

by Dave Mill

Hi We're seeing a large increase in inbound traffic levels today. Appears to be coming in both over peering links and internationally. Right now it appears to be Microsoft related. An AKL-IX graph shows it well - http://monitor.akl-ix.nz/cacti/graph.php?local_graph_id=14&rra_id=all Or the MS port: http://monitor.akl-ix.nz/cacti/graph.php?action=view&local_graph_id=137&rra… Does anyone else have more information to add as to what MS patches or similar are causing this? And over what borders this traffic is entering their networks? Cheers Dave

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