Re: [AusNOG] Disaster Recovery Site Options in Sydney
On Wed, 2024-02-07 at 21:09 +, Darren Moss wrote: > We have a project to create an off-site full DR facility > [...] > Must be at least 30 mins away from Alexandria. Is that ping time, driving time, walking time or running and screaming time? Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
[AusNOG] A very small ending
Sorry if this is not appropriate for AusNOG, but if not here then where? I just advised APNIC that I would not be renewing 203.26.128.0/24 after holding it for (I think) twenty-seven years. The fees were OK for what amounted to sentimental reasons (since I haven't routed it for a long while) but not after the recent 225% hike, so... The earliest routing I can find for it was by Spirit Networks (hi Richard!) over a permanent dialup line in June 1996. A reverse delegation for it was actioned in July 1996, apparently by Geoff Huston's own fair hand. So I probably got the original allocation, probably from Geoff, sometime in early 1996. There ya go. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] ISDN shutdown 31 May 2022
On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 18:55 +1100, Adam Heathcote wrote: > Whilst this is generally true, any SIP provider that isn’t using TLS > can reconstruct the fax image with voip diagnostic software/packet > sniffers. Whilst not an endpoint, the fax does travel through their > systems. I think being a SIP provider would count as "interception between the endpoints takes a lot of specialised knowledge", not to mention an absolute shedload of specialised equipment. The Internet Fax Machine would obviously not have this vulnerability :- ) Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 61A0 99A9 8823 3A75 871E 5D90 BADB B237 260C 9C58 Old fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] ISDN shutdown 31 May 2022
On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 15:51 +0800, Chris Legg wrote: > Interesting concept but how would this differ from email, apart from > automatically printing? Because (done right) you don't need a computer, a monitor, or skillz. It is a Thing with an IP address that prints what it is sent from authenticated sources. That's it. People happily typed phone numbers into fax machines - they can type IP addresses just as easily :-) > Private information being automatically printed defeats the purpose > of authentication. Not at all. As long as the machine is accessible only to authorised people. Conceptually no different to a PC on a desk receiving an encrypted email. BTW I am not seriously advocating for the Internet Fax Machine, or for old-school fax machines. The point of my quote was that old does not necessarily mean useless, old definitely does not necessarily mean less secure, and that new does not necessarily mean better or more secure. Fax machines have a HUGE slew of advantages over the alternatives. They have downsides too. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 61A0 99A9 8823 3A75 871E 5D90 BADB B237 260C 9C58 Old fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] ISDN shutdown 31 May 2022
On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 05:18 +, Bradley Amm wrote: > Healthcare still loves it as it’s more secure than email apparently. > Yes let’s send test results via fax so they can sit in the machine in > full view of anyone who goes to them https://biplane.com.au/blog/?p=530 "Fax is point-to-point. It’s difficult to intercept except at the endpoints, interception between the endpoints takes a lot of specialised knowledge, and no endpoint is a honeypot. The medium is not inherently copyable. Interception at the endpoint takes a significant amount of time and requires the physical presence of an attacker. Any attacker would be able to access relatively few records. Access would be expensive and slow with very high risk of discovery (unless the attacker was on staff in which case all communication methods would be equally compromised), while for the legitimate user the rate of access is easily sufficient. So fax is actually not a bad means of transferring private data as long as the fax machines are not located in public spaces." Internet fax would be nice - fax machines with publicly reachable IP addresses, protected by SSL, that just print whatever page is sent to them. Some form of authentication would be essential of course :-) Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 61A0 99A9 8823 3A75 871E 5D90 BADB B237 260C 9C58 Old fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Bit of a long shot but...
On Sun, 2021-12-05 at 12:27 +1100, Giles Pollock wrote: > I'm fairly sure an email server hosting a client of mine > has been forgotten about and has managed to run out of disk space, > and I can't seem to get hold of anyone who recognises it actually > exists... Follow the money. It's unlikely anybody is running it for free. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 61A0 99A9 8823 3A75 871E 5D90 BADB B237 260C 9C58 Old fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
[AusNOG] [END OF STORY] Re: Getting a network out of a box...
On Sat, 2021-07-31 at 02:39 +1000, Karl Auer wrote: > We need to stream from a particular venue that has no wired access in > the space we will be streaming from. It's a cinema [...] So, the end of this story is that the physical event ended up cancelled due to the statewide COVID-19 lockdown. If anyone is interested in the online event, go to https://online.farsouthfilmfestival.com and enjoy. However, we did test powerline ethernet as a solution and I have to say it worked extremely well. It's a small cinema and the (two) powerline ethernet units were on a circuit by themselves. Just to make sure, we fired up the projectors, the pop-corn makers, the registers and the neon lighting and opened the coolers until they started running, and with all that the comms didn't miss a beat. We ran the curtain-pullers and got a bit of surround sound going; we even raised and lowered the house lights - generally an electromagnetically noisy affair - with no perceptible effect on our network. So I'm definitely going to add a couple of powerline ethernet units to my bag of tricks. We will almost certainly be using that venue in the future, so it's nice to know we have a solution. And we didn't even need to break out the nailguns and hot glue! :-) Once again, my gratitude to all those who helped out with ideas and suggestions. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 61A0 99A9 8823 3A75 871E 5D90 BADB B237 260C 9C58 Old fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Getting a network out of a box...
On Sat, 2021-07-31 at 02:39 +1000, Karl Auer wrote: > We need to stream from a particular venue that has no wired access in > the space we will be streaming from. Thank you so much to all those who responded! Suggestions were: "60GHz through a projection port" Powerline ethernet (three people, Pete Mundy got in first) Cables under a red carpet (missing the point that we don't have cables, but I did like the red carpet idea) Ubiquiti 5G PTP gear through a projection port Something involving "HDMI handoff" that whistled over my head (sorry) "900MHz Ubiquiti gear" I have managed to borrow some powerline ethernet units. Initial tests are very promising. I'm getting 50mb/s out of them just doing crude file transfer tests. If we can get that in the actual venue, we'll be laughing. These ones are only FE from 2011, more recent ones are probably way better/faster. Possible fly in the ointment if we can't get the units on the same circuit; won't know until I get in there. Anyway, I'll let you know how we go. Thanks again to all who responded. And any further brilliant ideas still very welcome :-) It occurs to me that there may be a market for optical devices that can just go on either side of a glass pane and talk though it. Non- destructive. No mounts - just suckers or magnets. No need for aiming, they'd be so close to each other. Could be really low power for the same reason. I'd buy a set :-) Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 61A0 99A9 8823 3A75 871E 5D90 BADB B237 260C 9C58 Old fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
[AusNOG] Getting a network out of a box...
I hope this is not inappropriate for this forum... We need to stream from a particular venue that has no wired access in the space we will be streaming from. It's a cinema, so every wall and the ceiling is fireproofed/firewalled. Punching holes in any of them is a big, big deal, and not going to happen for one event. The floor is concrete. The venue has wifi, but our experiments have shown it to be poor - one access point, quite distant and through a couple more walls. The projection room is directly adjacent and through only one wall, and it has excellent access to the venue's wired network. There are glass projection ports in that wall, but they do not open. 2.4G reaches from the space into the projection room OK, 5GHz does not do so well. With an audience in the space, all with mobile phones, all with wifi turned on, we are concerned that we will lose wifi performance, even if the signal strength is good, and even though we will not be permitting those devices to actually associate with the wifi. So how do we stream from inside this space to the outside world with anything approaching speed or reliability? The bandwidth bottleneck will be the venue's NBN connection, but anything that is as fast or faster than (say) 50mb/s will do the job. Right now my best solution - and I doubt a very good one - is to put a 2.4GHz access point against the wall inside the projection room, wired to the venue network, put a wifi station against the wall outside the projection room, and run an ethernet cable to the streaming station. Any other ideas gratefully received. Regards, K. PS Mobile telephony is not an option here. FSO might work through the projection ports, but probably expensive, LOS will be a problem with an audience, and we'd probably have difficulty with accurate mounts (the available tech is nailguns and hot glue :-) -- ~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 61A0 99A9 8823 3A75 871E 5D90 BADB B237 260C 9C58 Old fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] iiNet / Westnet - E-Mail Rejection from Office365
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 10:33 +1000, Peter Fern wrote: > Your SPF record includes "spf.protection.outlook.com", which has no > TXT records associated with it. Sounds like an Office365 problem. ? Unless it's just been fixed... kauer@kt1:~$ dig +short spf.protection.outlook.com txt "v=spf1 ip4:40.92.0.0/15 ip4:40.107.0.0/16 ip4:52.100.0.0/14 ip4:104.47.0.0/17 ip6:2a01:111:f400::/48 ip6:2a01:111:f403::/48 include:spfd.protection.outlook.com -all" Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Draytek 130 blank username/passwords
On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 14:00 +1000, Karl Auer wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 03:33 +, Benjamin Ricardo wrote: > > Also, surely if the stupid Draytek is in pppoe passthrough it > > should know not to try to authenticate itself??? > > I have a dim memory of a hybrid configuration where an xDSL > router/modem did authentication and then went to passthrough. Wasn't > Draytek though. Maybe my dim memory was about Drayteks after all :-) I just trawled through some of my old tech notes, and found this slightly cryptic note to myself: "It may be superstition, but it seems that 'PPPoE/PPPoA Client' must be enabled for the device to work properly, even though the device itself is not doing the authentication etc." For whatever that's worth. The 120 and 130 are pretty close relatives. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Draytek 130 blank username/passwords
On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 03:33 +, Benjamin Ricardo wrote: > Also, surely if the stupid Draytek is in pppoe passthrough it should > know not to try to authenticate itself??? I have a dim memory of a hybrid configuration where an xDSL router/modem did authentication and then went to passthrough. Wasn't Draytek though. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Lightning and FTTC - is it really this bad?
On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 11:04 +1100, Jrandombob wrote: > Even in a high lightning area, as Damien said previously, if anything > FTTC ought to be LESS susceptible (assuming of course the devices are > well designed) to lightning owing to the shorter cable runs. There are two ways in to the CPE - the FTTC connection and the power supply to the CPE. The FTTC connections are themselves powered at the curb, and so may be a conduit for spikes into CPE. The likelihood of the cable run from the curb to the CPE getting hit directly is probably very low, but the likelihood of the power grid getting hit and sending a spike down the line to either the curb equipment and thence to the CPE or to the CPE directly is unchanged. Actually it's probably higher, given the greater number of powered devices in the network. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage
On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 11:10 +0800, Kai wrote: > Does anyone know if Microsoft, AWS or other providers may allow > themselves access to stored files? AWS says that they do not access data unless required to by law or in the normal course of providing the service (same FAQ). But what they *say* is irrelevant. Security is not about intention, it's about capability. If you want your data absolutely positively secret, encrypt it. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020, 12:02 Kai, wrote: > > Google, Microsoft and the other big names might have cache server > > here but the data is also stored overseas, I'm looking for > > providers who either allow you to choose your cloud storage > > location, or only have hosting within Australia, and have storage > > which is encrypted. You can choose to have your data held in one Region. You can even choose to keep it all in one AZ (the "One Zone-IA" storage class). But naming remains global regardless. AWS provide encryption at rest in S3, using several different methods. See the FAQ for more info on all points: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/ Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Telstra NBN - some services down?
On Sun, 2020-08-02 at 11:18 +1000, lauri...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Some clients have contacted me about this, this morning. Appears to be a DNS issue. Workaround is change resolvers. Allegedly. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] All AU Locations Virtual Machine
On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 10:23 +1000, Project AnyCast wrote: > I am in urgent need of a Virtual Machine of low'ish specs in all > locations of Australia > Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Tasmania AWS will give you one in that price range, but only in Sydney. I can give you one for $10/month if you don't mind low bandwidth. Great specs - 8GB RAM, 4vCPU, 1TB HDD. Bandwidth is 16Mbit/s inbound, 450Kbit/s outbound. 1xIPv4, 1xIPv6, but only static routing and only for specific port numbers. We are located almost exactly halfway between Sydney and Melbourne, so you'd be killing two birds with one stone. Win! What kind of uptime do you need? I can only offer four 9's, because it uses a power point I need when I do the vacuuming. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] My condolences to the people trying to sort out remote learning
On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 05:07 +, Mark Delany wrote: > FWIW, I've never touched jitsi before in my life but even I managed > to follow a cookbook and get a dual-stack server up and running in a > few hours. I was tempted to drop the A RR just to see how many users > would squeal, but that would be too cruel in Australia. Where? I don't mean "give me access" :-) I mean, where did you set it up? AWS, Azure, own DC? At home? Also, which cookbook did you follow? Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] My condolences to the people trying to sort out remote learning
On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 17:16 -0700, Dave Taht wrote: > It really bugs me that a soiree with me and a couple friends > has to be on a server in the cloud, webrtc is pretty amazingly low > bandwidth. The problem is and always has been NAT. You need an external rendezvous point OR complicated port forwarding arrangements set up in advance. An external server neatly solves those issues. At least things like Jitsi let you set up your own server eg in AWS. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] its 2020 youd think NBN would prevent this
On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 06:06 +, Mark Delany wrote: > Yes, maybe NBNCo should be better, but they are no worse than > historical industry standards - such as they are. I don't like mistakes, but I understand them and have some sympathy for those that make them. I've made a few doozies in my time. It's not about making no mistakes; that's basically impossible. It's about how a company deals with having made one. So many companies seem to have no ability to deal with mistakes, or even awareness that they might ever make one. It took me weeks of multiple calls per day to get Telstra to understand that their tech had made changes at the exchange that had not been followed up with changes at the premises, and had then marked the job done in their ticket system. I can still vividly remember the relief when at long last a wonderful lady at Telstra said "Hm. I think the computer has it wrong. I'll send someone out. No charge." Far more enraging than the delay itself was the fact that upon enquiry, it turned out that not ONE of the many different people I had explained the problem to had ever thought it necessary to add my clear and concise description of the problem (and the cure) to the trouble ticket. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Mikrotik CRS VLAN Configuration Assistance
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 10:16 +1000, Matt Perkins wrote: > The Mikrotik Mailing list is a good place to start. Info here. > https://www.duxtel.com.au/online_community.html Pff. That'll teach me to read my mails unthreaded. :-) Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Mikrotik CRS VLAN Configuration Assistance
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 09:56 +1000, Karl Latiss wrote: > Oddly, I am also looking for some pointers with MikroTik CRS and > VLANs. Appreciate any assistance (off list) as well. There is an Australian mailing list for MikroTik users, with an active, knowledgeable and generally responsive membership. Go here to join: talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Swap Beer for Doubling/Tripling Included CVC
On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 16:10 +1100, Jason Leschnik wrote: > > Fibre to the house was the original correct design. > Sorry formy uneducated understanding but how practical would have > fibre to the home end-to-end across the country really been? I'm sure > this is something Bevan might understand with his experience truck > rolling fibre installs. But surely backhoe-ing the whole country is a > nice idea in theory but surely this would have never scaled/taken a > long time/cost a lot of money? > > I don't condone the approach taken but surely a phased/mixed approach > is how things normally end up in the real world? In infrastructure, too little expenditure usually results in something that is unfit for purpose, or at best serves only for a short while before requiring replacement. This is what has happened with the NBN. People said it would cost too much. The problem is that it has cost too little. Almost any extreme level of expenditure would have paid off in in the medium to long term - yes, even running a thousand kilometres of fibre out to Kikakanalong. The benefit of NOT mixing modes is also extreme. It might cost an absolute motza, but it pays the country back a thousand times over. Unlike the sad little Gollum that the NBN has become. The NBN was deep-sixed by an utter lack of vision, cynical political tactics and a flat refusal to acknowledge the incredible array of other advantages that would come from a dependable high-speed network over the entire country (and therefore a refusal to allow said advantages to "cross-subsidise" the network). Words simply cannot express the loathing I feel for the scum that f*cked over an entire country for short term political gain in this respect. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Help with Mikrotik + Huawei E8372
On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 01:17 +, Darren Moss wrote: > I have purchased a bunch of new Huawei E8372 LTE dongles > [...] > Having all sorts of dramas configuring with Mikrotik RB devices... > everything looks normal, device appears up, DHCP allocates a local IP > but no internet access. As avinash said, you could try NATing the interface (srcnat): /ip firewall nat add chain=srcnat \ action=masquerade \ to-addresses=0.0.0.0 \ out-interface=dongle_interface However, nothing will work if the dongle isn't registering with the network, so are the right LEDs lit? Generally a steady LED indicates connection (or random flickering, but not rhythmic flashing). To set it up as a bridge you will probably need to connect to the dongle from a PC to reconfigure it. When you get it work, blog it and post the link :-) Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
[AusNOG] (Probably a bit OT) IPv6 oddity
Had an interesting (to me) case last week. Client rang on his mobile to say his phones didn't work and also he couldn't get to his bank or anything else - except Google. Also, I found I was able to use TeamViewer to access one of his PCs. He's on NBN over FTTC (or maybe FTTN) with Telstra. Turned out his Telstra router was supplying a valid prefix to autoconfigure IPv6 addresses in, but it was not supplying IPv4 addresses via DHCP. Reset the router and it all came good. This is the first time I've seen this in the wild where it was not a misconfiguration (though I'm the first to admit that "the wild" is more of an inoffensive thicket in my case). Is it more common than I think? Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] EdgeRouter IPv6 on AussieBB
On Sun, 2019-09-08 at 14:12 +1000, Alex Wakefield wrote: > My internal interface manages to get IPs out of the range handed out > by Aussie but clients never get an address after that. I'm trying to > use SLAAC to hand out IPs. Relevant config on my internet facing port > below. I don't speak EdgeRouter but that secoond-last stanza looks to me as if you are asking the interface itself to autoconf its own address. That's probably wrong; IIRC a routing interface can't be autoconfed. Odd that the router didn't complain if so, however. Not sure if that prefix_length refers to what you get from the upstream, or the prefix you are trying to advertise. If the latter, be aware that nothing will do SLAAC on a prefix length other than 64. If clients don't SLAAC themselves IPv6 addresses, it's almost always because they are not configured to use IPv6 at all, or they are not seeing RAs from the router. Easy to check by sniffing the link on that interface - you should be seeing various kinds of IPv6 multicast including RA. Check that a test client definitely has a link local address; if it does, it's doing IPv6. Then check that it doesn't have some kind of "kill all ipv6" filter. You'd be amazed how often that's the issue - someone turned off or blocked IPv6 to fix some problem they thought IPv6 was causing. Some operating systems (like Linux at least) have a "don't do SLAAC" switch and/or an "ignore RAs" switch. Are those "firewall" stanzas definitely not blocking IPv6? Try putting an IPv6 prefix on the link directly (no PD) and seeing if the clients do their thing then. At least that will definitely exclude client-side issues. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] Disk wear & Foucault Period
On 22 Aug 2019, at 10:39 am, Paul Wilkins > > wrote: > > > > Over a disk's 5 year life, that's about 1800 power cycles. Not > > enough to kill a disk, or to even be an obvious problem, but a > > hidden and unnecessary drain on disk life and IT budgets. Except that the precession happens very gradually. You can't compare getting punched in the face with the same force delivered as a thousand gentle pats. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] Disk wear & Foucault Period
On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 16:06 +1000, Paul Wilkins wrote: > Has anyone ever noticed a pattern of disks in equatorial latitudes > lasting significantly longer than say Sydney or Melbourne? I doubt it has anything to do with the Foucault Period, but it could have a lot to do with the fact that folk in northern climes take airconditioning much more seriously :-) Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] going rate for a rooftop installation?
On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 12:49 +1000, Mark Smith wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 12:40, Jim Woodward > wrote: > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: AusNOG On Behalf Of Mark > > Smith > > Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2019 12:30 PM > > To: Paul Wilkins > > Cc: AUSNOG > > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] going rate for a rooftop installation? > > > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 12:07, Paul Wilkins > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > There's no such thing as a "going rate", as the notion of a going > > > rate assumes a functioning market, and obviously, due to the > > > unique geographic nature of each roof top, and the lack of > > > diversity of demand for these services, there aren't the factors > > > of supply and demand that would allow for a market mechanism to > > > dictate price. > > > > > > > > > So you're saying the price could vary from $0 through to $∞? > > > > That would very much be up to the property owner/manager to set a > > price on, every case can be different - even in the same property > > where a second tenant wants an install after one has been done for > > $0 - it can come down to how they feel on the day or the standing > > relationship between the tenant and the property owner/manager . it > > is entirely possible that if they are getting frequent requests of > > this type that they may deem it an administrative cost from their > > point of view, If they want you to pay, then you either pay or seek > > an alternate solution that doesn't involve roof installation :) > > > Surely there's a rough average ball park figure, which I'm guessing > the OP was asking for. > > $100? $500? $2500? $5000? $10 000? $100 000? $1 000 000? > > The length of a piece of string might be infinite in theory and > abstract. In practice there's going to be an average length, which > string users will know the price of (and I guess will be the average > price and length of a ball.) > > > > > Kind Regards, > > Jim. > > > > > > ___ > > AusNOG mailing list > > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net > > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > ___ > AusNOG mailing list > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog From the many replies I got off-list (for which I thank the senders), it seems the rate is very variables. I think the owners in "my" case just want not to be ripped off. They are smart enough to know that having and providing access to an antenna on their roof is going to cost them something, that the roof itself is an asset that must be paid for and maintained, and that the carrier is getting a benefit from use of the roof. Those factors(plus a wish for a modest profit and an awareness that their roof is in no way unique in this area) will inform the price they ask for. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] going rate for a rooftop installation?
On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 01:02 +1000, Karl Auer wrote: > Someone wants to put an antenna on a roof. A pole-and-two-struts kind > of thing. What sort of price should they expect to pay? Is there a > "going rate" or is it a case-by case thing? My question was completely misleading and I can only apologise to those who kindly sent me the going rates for getting an antenna installed on a roof. BUT what I was actually interested in was the going rate for using the rooftop. I.e., the rental of the space by the owner of the antenna. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
[AusNOG] going rate for a rooftop installation?
Someone wants to put an antenna on a roof. A pole-and-two-struts kind of thing. What sort of price should they expect to pay? Is there a "going rate" or is it a case-by case thing? Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] PAID GIG - Looking for an Network engineer with MicroTek Experience
On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 14:10 +1000, Rahul Chawla wrote: > - We are looking for some help from a network engineer. > - Having some issues at one of our sites. > - Looking for some one who is very well versed with MicroTek Routers. It would save everybody time when posting such things if you gave some basic information such as the general area of concern, the likely time investment that will be needed, the approximate level of skill you are looking for, the approximate range of remuneration and above all the physical location (if remote access is not possible). Also, it seems likely that you meant to write MikroTik. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Seeking email hosting
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 05:58 +, Chad Kelly wrote: > Basically Exchange Online Plan1 is way more then $2 per month. $5.50 at last look. Just google "australia email-only hosting"; you can get it for well under $2/user/month, just don't expect much from it. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] More legislative interventions
On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 10:56 +1000, Paul Wilkins wrote: > Now I would say that for instance, if the eSecurity Director posts > the CRC of a file as being "abhorrent violent" content, and your > company doesn't expeditiously take down that material, expect > problems down the pike. Numerous people have called you on your ongoing "fingerprint" fantasy. It would be nice if you would take that on board, because your repeated nonsense on that score is exactly the kind of talk that gets cherrypicked by the 20-watt bulbs in government and used as if it were fact. Regarding recklessness and "expeditiously", I'd agree with you. A properly framed legal demand has to be followed, even if daft, unconscionable, or the product of flawed legislation. Unfortunately, what we will almost certainly see is companies taking down material even when the demand is not properly framed and/or the material not illegal, just to avoid risk. Few will reinstate material in the event that later due diligence reveals a flaw in the demand; few will bother with due diligence at all. It's too expensive, and no-one will reimburse them for their trouble. There are no draconian laws working *for* legal material, so there is a sort of "ratchet" effect. It seems very likely to me that material not actually covered by the law will start being attacked using this law, taking advantage of the fact that it is easier and cheaper for companies to just take down anything they are asked to take down, without bothering with due diligence either before or after the fact. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] More legislative interventions
On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 11:55 +1000, Paul Wilkins wrote: > There should be little cost to service providers in implementing take > down notices. Video can now easily be fingerprinted, and repeat > postings autoflagged for moderator take down. Video fingerprints can be avoided by transcoding video, or analog copying it, or applying any of a thousand invisible (to humans) filters, or in many cases just by snipping out a second here or there. It takes almost no technical skill at all. No doubt automated recognition of video content will get better, but it certainly is not there yet. Reacting to a take-down notice is not something that can be automated in any case. Is the notice genuine? Does it apply to the provider's jurisdiction? Is it reasonable? Does it require a legal or a practical response? These are not automatable decisions (at least, not yet). > The Assistance and Access Act was a big deal because it represents a > credible threat to the democratic rights to freedom of speech and > privacy. I'm glad we agree on that, at least. > The Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material Act on the other hand, is > at worst a distraction, but rather looks like the government doing > what they're supposed to do. Really? Ramming unworkable legislation through in the emotional heat following a tragedy, without any public consultation, without any discussion with affected parties, without consulting any technical experts or seeking any input from civil society? > I can't see Voltaire going to the barricades to protect people's > rights to propagate murder videos. Can't speak for Voltaire, but opposition to this legislation has nothing to do with "murder videos". If you think it does, you are very badly missing the point. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] More legislative interventions
te, so what? It gathers them all in one nicely monitorable place so that law enforcement can act when the next murderous thug says "I'm gonna kill them all". If government really wants to do something about hateful speech it should firstly stop using it, and secondly work to support and encourage the above activities. Saying "shut up" does nothing except breed seething silence. Saying "you're wrong and here's why" at least provides a path out of ignorance. Stifling hateful speech just pushes it into the dark. Light it up. Regards, K. [1] I genuinely do not understand how an intelligent person can support curtailment of speech (or other civil liberties such as freedom of assembly) without extraordinary protections in law. For me, such support is very close to prima facie evidence of LACK of intelligence, or at very least failure to use it. [2] Canonical example: Shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. Less canonical example: Temporarily suppressing information about a current court case or police investigation. Very current example: Explicit encouragement to kill. [3] Won't someone think of the children?!? -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Mikrotik IPv6 Vulnerability - Must Read if you have Public IPv6 Facing Mikrotik
On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 01:11 +, Michael J. Carmody wrote: > If you want to stay in the Mikrotik like space, VyOS is probably > where you need to be for BGP/Carrier networking. This is really sad, because the MikroTiks are almost unbeatable bang for buck. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS
On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 17:31 +1100, Paul Wilkins wrote: > It's very much active law. Oh :-( Well, in that case I was misinformed, and I apologise for promulgating the misinformation. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS
On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:57 +1100, Paul Wilkins wrote: > It was only passed as an expedient because the LEAs made the argument > it was better to pass the Bill and subsequently amend, rather then > leave them without the powers over Christmas. Can we please at every opportunity point out the total lie that that "argument" was? The bill may be passed, but it is not operational law yet and will not be until months after Christmas. It was never, ever going to give anyone "the powers they need over Christmas", and every person that used the "argument" knew full well that that was the case. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Friday question
On Sun, 2018-11-18 at 13:04 +1100, Johnathon Brandis wrote: > I despise troubleshooting the laptop and a fault at the same time, > thus my love for Mac which just works when your under the pump. Linux in my case. Same reason :-) Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Friday question
> > > > What tools do you carry around for work. > > > > Whats the oldest - krone tool ? > > > > Whats the newest > > > > Whats the most useful ! A bent-out medium size paper clip. It gets lost and replaced often, but it is the answer to all four questions. Here is a short story I wrote a few years ago. See if you can guess what used-to-be-essential item is telling its tale: "I don't remember being made; don't remember the quick staccato movements of the American robots that put me together, tiny puffs of acrid smoke rising as my dozens of solder spots were placed, my twenty- five wires brought skillfully but mindlessly to their final positions, my label slapped on just before I hit the conveyor belt to the blister- packing machine. I do remember being in the blister pack though, looking out, rather mystified, over the shelves and spotty customers of a Tandy store in Civic. "And I remember being bought; how huge hands split the blister pack and threw me into the darkness of a toolbox. I remember rattling around for eternity, making the painful acquaintance of the other residents of the toolbox. "The first time I was used is clear in my mind too; spliced into some hairball cable, I saw so obviously, so properly where the bits needed to go. I recall switching them like little carts on parallel rollercoasters. This goes there; and that goes here... It all made sense and I revelled in being part of the flow, part of the functioning. "But I've not been that for a long time now. For a long while I rode in the toolbox, but then I was placed on a shelf in a workshop. I used to be able to see the workshop, but now I see only the backsides and elbows of the things that cover me, other plastics and metals, casings, cables and chips. "I have no moving parts. I don't decay. Patch me into your cable again, and again I'll bring your data through. But I guess that won't be happening. Cables are different now; standardised, correct, the right cable for the right job. I was only ever a fixer, a translator, a corrector of errors, a twister of pairs. "The future is a very long time for an obsolete immortal." Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] o365 experience
On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 12:19 +1000, Jim Woodward wrote: > I have used MigrationWiz before but found CodeTwo Office365 Migration > to be excellent too, I could tune the migration to use as many > threads that were reliable, could pause migration and resume when > needed without having to resend everything that had already been > moved. Haven't used Code Two, but those features are also provided by MigrationWiz. One thing I like about MigrationWiz is the test migration feature - it lets you get the authentication set up and migrate a few emails, a few contacts and so on to make sure everything is working, and you can do this for ALL your planned migratees without paying a cent. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Vendors back charging on support and maintenance.
On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 00:07 +, Nikolas Geyer wrote: > Yes, it’s pretty standard. It’s to stop people running hardware > without a maintenance contract and only buying one when they need to > do, for example, a RMA. Sorry, why is that a problem? If they pay the support fee, they should get the benefits. If they are not using the benefits, why should they pay the fee? On the flip side, they may not have paid support for ten years, but they also have not been costing the vendor anything. I see no problem with someone waiting until it is needed before paying the support fee. Am I missing something? What *is* the "vendor side of the problem"? Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management
On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 11:20 +1100, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > What will be as interesting is the word on why they are still > selling flawed processors especially as they have indicated there > is no way to fix it with an update. Can you imagine selling a car > that doesn't actually have working brakes and then saying, "not our > problem it's working as designed"... Well... no. The problem is "read only". If it kills people it will only be as a (very) indirect consequence. It's more like continuing to sell a car which will send photographs of the contents of your glovebox to an attacker IFF the car contains exactly four people, the driver is Swedish, and someone in a car traveling behind you shines a torch up the exhaust pipe. I.e., both you and the attacker have to meet some pretty rigorous preconditions for the attack to succeed. On the other hand, protecting your car against this attack prevents the car from traveling at more than 70% of its advertised maximum speed. On the other other hand, this will not affect most people most of the time, since they rarely drive at more than 10% of the advertised maximum speed. So yes - it's a serious problem, but not a life-threatening one, unless you want to get metaphorical about it. As to warranty; IT consumers are notoriously underprotected in law. Not sure why anyone would expect this case to be different... Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Co-lo or Virtual hosting - Turkey/Europe.
On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 15:21 +1000, Ross Wheeler wrote: > Good folk of Ausnog - has anyone here got first-hand experience with > either co-located or virtualised servers in or near (in network > terms) Turkey? Not an answer to your actual question, but AWS has had an office in Istanbul since late 2015. There is a turkish AWS users group who might be able to provide first-hand info about connectivity etc. And they may well also have info about local providers. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A Old fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
Re: [AusNOG] Telstra IPv6 routing issues
On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 05:11 +, Anthony Bortolotto wrote: > Just putting it out there, is anyone else experiencing IPv6 routing > issues with Telstra in particular from the 4G mobile network? I had issues yesterday afternoon accessing testra.com.au via HTTPS that were not evident when I forced IPv4 or bypassed DNS, and went away when I flushed my local DNS. However I didn't look at it very closely. At the same time, Google continued fine with IPv6. I'm coming from an Internode PA prefix. Hard to say if it was Telstra's issue, even harder to say if it's related to whatever issue you are seeing. Regards, K. -- ~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A Old fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
