Re: [AusNOG] Vendors back charging on support and maintenance.

2018-04-23 Thread Ross Wheeler
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Peter Tiggerdine wrote: I've just observed an interesting situation where a vendor is charging upto 18months "fee" to bring a device back into active maintenance and support. The customer purchase the kit secondhand. Naturally the customer is pushing back (don't blame th

Re: [AusNOG] Vendors back charging on support and maintenance.

2018-04-23 Thread Bill Woodcock
> I've just observed an interesting situation where a vendor is charging upto > 18months "fee" to bring a device back into active maintenance and support. > The customer purchase the kit secondhand. Naturally the customer is pushing > back (don't blame them). > Is this common in our industry? H

[AusNOG] Vendors back charging on support and maintenance.

2018-04-23 Thread Peter Tiggerdine
Hi All Apologies for the noise. I've just observed an interesting situation where a vendor is charging upto 18months "fee" to bring a device back into active maintenance and support. The customer purchase the kit secondhand. Naturally the customer is pushing back (don't blame them). Is this comm

Re: [AusNOG] MSN (Azure) and NTT peering in Sydney

2018-04-23 Thread Chris O'Donoghue
Well it seems that persistence pays. NTT now peer across Sydney with Azure. Now MSN have updated their routes. Hope this improves the general situation for connectivity in Sydney. Chris -Original Message- From: Chris O'Donoghue Sent: Monday, 26 March 2018 2:09 PM To: 'ausnog@lists.ausn

[AusNOG] Mikrotik Advisory: Vulnerability exploiting the Winbox port

2018-04-23 Thread Joseph Goldman
https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=133533 TL;DR - someone can push a request to winbox port and get the internal USER DB back before authing. If best practice is followed (i.e. firewalled off) - you should not have been compromised, but best to update when new ROS available and c