Re: [AusNOG] Contact at GTT for a routing issue

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Smith
You might be better off contacting the party who bought GTT, because in my relatively limited experience, GTT haven't existed for something like 10 to 15 years (i.e., how long I haven't heard "GTT" mentioned at all 🤷‍♀️) On Thu, 9 May 2024, 19:34 Elliott Willink, wrote: > Sorry for the noise - p

Re: [AusNOG] munnari.oz.au

2024-05-08 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 15:14, Terry Sweetser wrote: > > So … AusNOG, > > > > What is the status of that server for DNS and other “very old things from > long” ago? Details of what it was originally used for are in the "AARNet - 20 Years of the Internet in Australia" book at the following link. Q

[AusNOG] "How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet"

2024-04-12 Thread Mark Smith
Interesting article on the development of Ethernet bridging which then became "switching" when implemented in hardware. https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-dec-engineers-saved-ethernet The chapter on the development of the bridge in the "Network Algorithmics" book mentioned is also interesting, as is t

[AusNOG] That's not a cutover. THIS is a cutover!

2024-03-17 Thread Mark Smith
Courtesy of Nathan@NZNOG. Where have the Gary Brannons of the industry gone? The hair, the moustache and those glasses! https://youtu.be/saRir95iIWk?si=oS1AjiSqcUnxmvKb ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/lis

Re: [AusNOG] iinet secret SA gateway - reg. cust. with iinet GW 203.217.8.255 is in Tas ?

2024-02-16 Thread Mark Smith
It's likely that their DNS PTR records are out of date for their network. Fairly common issue. On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 12:58, Go Group - GEO Gurus wrote: > > G'Day Guys > > I'm a newbie here so hope !'m ! breaking any rules posting about a LAN ? > > I was checking a regional SA iinet DHCP set sta

[AusNOG] Super Early registration for IETF 119 in Brisbane finishes todayish

2024-01-28 Thread Mark Smith
Hi All, Just a heads up for those intending to attending the IETF meeting 119 in Brisbane in mid March (16th through 22nd), super early registration finishes at 23:59 UTC on 29th of January, or tomorrow here in Australia at 10:59 AEDT, 10:29 ACDT, 8:44 UTC+8:45 or 7:59 AWST. The price goes from S

Re: [AusNOG] Do Optus layer 2 services - services support LACP?

2023-11-09 Thread Mark Smith
Forgot to add, this is the best LAG/LACP troubleshooting page on the Internet ever, or at least it was back in 2014. https://networkingbodges.blogspot.com/2012/12/all-sorts-of-things-about-lacp-and-lags.html On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 16:37, Mark Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2023

Re: [AusNOG] Do Optus layer 2 services - services support LACP?

2023-11-09 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 15:14, Tony Miles wrote: > Generically I would suggest that trying to run LACP over a carrier link is > not the best idea. LACP is intended as link aggregation for the two devices > that are directly connected together and so LACP packets are usually > interpreted as "local

Re: [AusNOG] DCB in non-converged networks

2023-11-09 Thread Mark Smith
Hi All, On Thu, 9 Nov 2023, 13:19 Robert Hudson, wrote: > I largely agree with Luke. Given you're on a dedicated iSCSI network, > keep it simple. DCB and other services will only add things that you'll > later need to troubleshoot and eliminate as the root cause of network > issues on your iSC

Re: [AusNOG] Quad9 DNS traffic to Singapore from AAPT/TPG

2023-09-19 Thread Mark Smith
Have you lodged a fault with APP/TPG? If there is a fault, only they can fix it, so it's best to talk to them first. On Wed, 20 Sept 2023, 11:41 Christopher Hawker, wrote: > Hello all, > > We are seeing some unusual behaviour with a TPG/AAPT service, where > traffic destined for Quad9 DNS is be

Re: [AusNOG] As path prepend TPG and Vocus

2023-05-03 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 2 May 2023, 09:01 Lincoln Dale, wrote: > All of what MMC said. :) > I'd also add: check the prefixes you're announcing via various looking > glasses - Vocus and TPG both have ones, but you can go wider too and see > what others view you as too. Some nice visualizations from tools like > b

Re: [AusNOG] Everything Open Conf AusNog hallway track?

2023-03-07 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 at 12:16, Bevan Slattery wrote: > > If you find yourself staggering the hallways at the Casino and looking for > the SSID “xrobau” then surely you’d be saying to yourself “It must be 3am and > I feel lonely.” Or an invite to see how much quota Rob has on his mobile plan by at

Re: [AusNOG] Superloop NBN Outage

2022-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
Contact their customer support. On Sun, 16 Jan 2022, 12:41 Christopher Hawker, wrote: > Hello all, > > There's an apparent outage affecting Superloop customers connecting to the > 2NEW POI. Their client portal lists the severity as low (not sure how that > determination is made) and the notifica

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra deal with Google

2021-01-29 Thread Mark Smith
Just imagine if we all carried around a device that could do all that in our pockets! On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, 23:24 Kai, wrote: > Google Nest and similar products, promoted as personal and home > assistant devices. > > I wonder how many people would buy them if they're promoted for what > they do -

Re: [AusNOG] Lightning and FTTC - is it really this bad?

2021-01-20 Thread Mark Smith
Heard of ADSL? POTS? If the Internet was only meant to run over fibre, there wouldn't have been any ARPANET or Internet before the late 1980s or early 1990s. Fun fact, RFC1 was written on a typewriter in a bathroom in 1969, because Steve didn't want to disturb his flatmates. https://tools.ietf.o

Re: [AusNOG] dodo vocus never learn

2021-01-14 Thread Mark Smith
Unsubscribe. On Fri, 15 Jan 2021, 12:11 Noel Butler, wrote: > The post was awareness that dodo/vocus are back to their old tricks, after > a few ACMA smackdowns you'd think they have learned but nope. > > the only spam message to hit my inbox in over a year (pretty good > considering this is my

Re: [AusNOG] TCP state

2020-11-12 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, 14:33 Alex Samad, wrote: > Hi > > Quick question is it normal or acceptable to finish a TCP session or I > should say start to finish session with a fin ack packet. When I google TCP > state I get it's just a fin packet not fin/ack > Yes. The Ack is acknowledging the Fin. A

Re: [AusNOG] Basic question about fibre visual fault locators

2020-09-26 Thread Mark Smith
nd > that when you learn to read > > > On 26/09/2020 19:57, Mark Smith wrote: > > > > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 at 14:48, Mark Smith wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, 26 Sep 2020, 14:44 Nathan Brookfield, < >> nathan.brookfi...@internet.asn.au> w

Re: [AusNOG] Basic question about fibre visual fault locators

2020-09-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 at 14:48, Mark Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020, 14:44 Nathan Brookfield, < > nathan.brookfi...@internet.asn.au> wrote: > >> See you in the big house! >> > > I've also committed the crime of forgetting it was an ST connector

Re: [AusNOG] Basic question about fibre visual fault locators

2020-09-25 Thread Mark Smith
en one of those for at least 20 years. > On 26 Sep 2020, at 11:49, Mark Smith wrote: > >  > Damn. Does that mean I'm not allowed to touch fibre patch leads anymore, > and have been a criminal since 1990? I knew it felt wrong to be pushing > hard on a $300 MM fibre patch

Re: [AusNOG] Basic question about fibre visual fault locators

2020-09-25 Thread Mark Smith
Damn. Does that mean I'm not allowed to touch fibre patch leads anymore, and have been a criminal since 1990? I knew it felt wrong to be pushing hard on a $300 MM fibre patch lead to get it to engage on the SC connector, now I know why. On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 at 09:57, Noel Butler wrote: > If you

[AusNOG] Good article on the IPv6 address security related IETF work over the past 10 years.

2020-08-15 Thread Mark Smith
The change from MAC address based stable IPv6 addresses is probably the most significant, as described in RFC7217, and becoming the recommended default for SLAAC in RFC8064. If router vendors implement RFC7217, the concern about swapping a network interface module, and the router's IPv6 address ch

Re: [AusNOG] MBB Wholesale Service provider

2020-07-31 Thread Mark Smith
OFFLIST Dear Bevan, NextSuperMegaCloudOOB.com is available, if you'd like to submit a proposal to my recently launched, fully capitalised early stage venture, Mark Smith eVentures International Incorporated. I await your response and your bank account details so I can deposit $500 do

[AusNOG] "Getting IPv6 private addressing right"

2020-05-21 Thread Mark Smith
Hi All, APNIC asked me to write up a blog article based on my past AusNOG 2019 and NZNOG 2020 presentations, which may be of interest to those who weren't able to attend either of those conferences: https://blog.apnic.net/2020/05/20/getting-ipv6-private-addressing-right/ Regards, Mark. _

Re: [AusNOG] its 2020 youd think NBN would prevent this

2020-04-13 Thread Mark Smith
Most companies in my experience try to pretend they're perfect to their customers. Their customers know this isn't true, because they probably don't work for a company that is perfect either. The perfection facade is bad for business. It isn't fooling anybody. On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, 16:48 Karl Auer

Re: [AusNOG] dark fibre encryption

2020-04-08 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 17:49, Phillip Grasso wrote: > > Cheapest is ipsec and there's plenty of options there. End-to-end crypto via IPsec or TLS/HTTPS is really the best option, you then don't have to trust the network. Also makes network engineers' lives easier - "I just shift the packets, I do

[AusNOG] Free book on working from home

2020-03-17 Thread Mark Smith
Came across this earlier on Twitter, haven't had a look yet. Looks to be a commercial book publisher, just decided to make this free given COVID-19. https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/working-from-home/ ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http

Re: [AusNOG] "Simple Systems Have Less Downtime"

2020-03-04 Thread Mark Smith
isiting Tainter’s Theory of Collapse" http://simplicityinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ResilienceThroughSimplificationSimplicityInstitute.pdf Regards, Mark. > > [b] > > > > *From: *AusNOG on behalf of Mark Smith < > markzzzsm...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Thursday, 5 March 2020 at 1:05 pm > *T

[AusNOG] "Simple Systems Have Less Downtime"

2020-03-04 Thread Mark Smith
This is excellent. About startups, however lots of parallels in network and network protocol architecture and design. Simple Systems Have Less Downtime https://www.gkogan.co/blog/simple-systems/ Also cross over with RFC1925, "The Twelve Networking Truths", for those that may not be aware if it.

Re: [AusNOG] Ticket Received - [#49297] AusNOG Digest, Vol 96, Issue 5

2020-02-05 Thread Mark Smith
Free tech support for everyone for all the things! On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 12:52, Bevan Slattery wrote: > > Awesome. Thanks. Should I just reboot the modem in the mean time? > > > From: AusNOG on behalf of Greenhood IT > > Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:02

Re: [AusNOG] the state of bufferbloat awareness and remediation in australia?

2020-01-25 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, 13:38 Rob Thomas, wrote: > Unsurprisingly to most, I'm the guy who played one of the VoIP packets > (I'm in the blue Clearly IP shirt). > > After his talk at LCA, I was discussing the way to handle VoIP, and I > mentioned that the way I do most VoIP client connections is via

[AusNOG] Blog article: "Pinging all IPv6 nodes on a link"

2020-01-01 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, Thought I'd use some of the break time to write some blog articles about IPv6 and ping. There's a few things about using ping with IPv6 that are different to using ping with IPv4, some which would be quite useful for IPv6 troubleshooting. The first article is "Pinging all IPv6 nodes on a link

Re: [AusNOG] ICON Panel RFP

2019-11-13 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, 13:40 Bevan Slattery, wrote: > Hey, > > Just quickly don’t normally post this but Dept of Finance RFP for being on > the ICON fibre Panel closes today. I know there’s a bunch of people on > this list that do civil works, fibre network management etc.. Thought it’s > worth ma

Re: [AusNOG] AusNOG Digest, Vol 92, Issue 25

2019-10-28 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 15:08, Jonathan Lynn wrote: > > G'day All, > > I've had multiple calls throughout the day from customers letting me know > they are having horrible latency when browsing to sharepoint.com and > yammer.com. I've logged an incident to Microsoft already. One of my customers

Re: [AusNOG] Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices

2019-10-15 Thread Mark Smith
inters Can Be Hacked to Catch Fire" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/printers-can-be-hacked-to-catch-fire/ > James > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2019, at 12:06, Paul Brooks wrote: > > On 15/10/2019 2:33 pm, Mark Smith wrote: > > > I recently bought an IPv6 enabled Wifi printer. As it is attached

Re: [AusNOG] Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices

2019-10-14 Thread Mark Smith
#x27;t have a global IPv6 address when it doesn't need one. (It would need one if I was using e.g. Google Cloud print). > On 15 Oct 2019, at 4:25 pm, Mark Smith wrote: > >  > > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, 17:13 Tomas Gibbs, wrote: > >> IIRC should be just fine to giv

Re: [AusNOG] Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices

2019-10-14 Thread Mark Smith
network firewall to protect a device from the Internet that can't ever be reached from the Internet. > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36> > > ------ > *From:* AusNOG on behalf of Mark Smith < > markzzzsm...@gmail.com> &

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra Wi-Fi calling on our network.

2019-10-14 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, 14:45 Narelle Clark, wrote: > On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 10:14, wrote: > > > > Also, anyone have any thoughts about what ACL one might put in place > > to block wifi calling if one was of a mind to? > > The last time I had a conversation with the Chair of the ACCC about > delibe

Re: [AusNOG] (Probably a bit OT) IPv6 oddity

2019-10-14 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, 15:05 Karl Auer, wrote: > 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. Facebook, Netflix, LinkedIn and most if not all things hosted on Akamai wo

[AusNOG] Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices

2019-10-14 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, Quite closely related to my recent AusNOG "Getting IPv6 Private Addressing Right" presentation. I recently bought an IPv6 enabled Wifi printer. As it is attached to my single Wifi SSID it is configuring itself with IPv6 global addresses, even though I don't need it to be reachable from the In

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra Wi-Fi calling on our network.

2019-10-12 Thread Mark Smith
ce is never a good idea. Telstra won't peer, they'll just say "switch to our Wifi network, it's much better the OzOnline's". Own goal. > Cheers, > > Jon > > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 09:55, Mark Smith wrote: > >> It's not truly complex. >

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra Wi-Fi calling on our network.

2019-10-12 Thread Mark Smith
It's not truly complex. It's as simple as asking what the OP's customers are paying for. Are they paying for Internet access, or are they paying for Internet access excluding the over-the-top services that Telstra are providing? If it is the latter, then it needs to be explicitly called out in t

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra Wi-Fi calling on our network.

2019-10-11 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 12:27, Nathan Brookfield wrote: > > If you run a corporate or last mile access network, isn’t your primary role > to deliver content to your end user whether that’s Email. HTTP, Voice or > video in some way, shape or form as reliably and quickly as possible without > faul

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra Mobile network bad time zone settings - Brisbane CBD

2019-10-01 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 12:28 Bruce Forster, wrote: > Hi noggers, > > Hoping someone @ telstra is on the list who can take a look at this one. > > You have a radio near central station in Brisbane, approx 180 ann st area > that is giving off bad time zone data, my phone switched from +10 to +8 and >

Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] Disk wear & Foucault Period

2019-08-21 Thread Mark Smith
regions, whereas you minimise precession at equitorial latitudes with >>> vertical mounting (but only if the axis is north aligned), which could go >>> some way to explaining the anecdotal stuff you hear about horizontal versus >>> vertical mounting. Though I'v

Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] Disk wear & Foucault Period

2019-08-20 Thread Mark Smith
How is this related to network operation? AusNOG - Australian Network Operators Group. You wouldn't go to a car show to ask about motorbikes - you'd to to a motorbike show, because that's where the most people interested in and having the most knowledge about motorbikes would be. On Wed, 21 Aug 2

Re: [AusNOG] Fwd: PJCIS: REVIEW OF THE MANDATORY DATA RETENTION REGIME, INVITATION TO MAKE A SUBMISSION

2019-07-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 10:32, Paul Wilkins wrote: > Comms Alliance submission > > makes the case that the costs of Data Retention are not being properly > compensated, with substantial incurred costs

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra outage Sydney

2019-07-11 Thread Mark Smith
Well, the explanation does make sense, all your eggs in one (fibre bundle) basket does make financial sense, as long as you ignore the cost of downtime. On Thu., 11 Jul. 2019, 17:15 Robert Hudson, wrote: > Fibre repair crew are on site in Pymble apparently. > > On Thu, 11 Jul. 2019, 4:08 pm Dami

Re: [AusNOG] NBN and /24

2019-07-11 Thread Mark Smith
gt;> You might not be able to do it on Internode HFC as its just a resold TPG >> service. You might need to check >> Future could probably do it without any problems >> >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:00 PM Mark Smith >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>

Re: [AusNOG] NBN and /24

2019-07-11 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu., 11 Jul. 2019, 16:03 Scott Weeks, wrote: > > > On Thu., 11 Jul. 2019, 10:42 Chris Hurley, wrote: > >Having trouble finding a service using the NBN that I can relocate my /24 > to > > --- markzzzsm...@gmail.com wrote: > From: Mark Smith > &

[AusNOG] Portable laptop stand for use in DCs

2019-07-10 Thread Mark Smith
So it's been a while since I've been in a DC, however I've also thought for a while that it could be useful to have a portable laptop stand to use while in one. My idea was to have some sort of laptop support that attached to a heavier duty camera tripod. I should have pursued this idea by doing a

Re: [AusNOG] NBN and /24

2019-07-10 Thread Mark Smith
Wow, that's a big IPv6 prefix! On Thu., 11 Jul. 2019, 10:42 Chris Hurley, wrote: > Hi All, > > Having trouble finding a service using the NBN that I can relocate my /24 > to. IT’s currently on a Telstra fibre but $850 per month is excessive for > the usage. Currently have a HFC connection into w

Re: [AusNOG] RISK: Equinix SY2 (SY1?) - Mascot Towers

2019-06-18 Thread Mark Smith
Mumble, mumble (something about Mike trolling in the both the original Internet and bridge sense.) On Wed., 19 Jun. 2019, 12:40 Bevan Slattery, wrote: > If it was the 400kw of solar we installed on the roof back in the day > wouldn’t work too well would it? :) > > > > At its closest it’s about

Re: [AusNOG] going rate for a rooftop installation?

2019-06-04 Thread Mark Smith
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

Re: [AusNOG] going rate for a rooftop installation?

2019-06-04 Thread Mark Smith
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

Re: [AusNOG] Mikrotik IPv6 Vulnerability - Must Read if you have Public IPv6 Facing Mikrotik

2019-03-28 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 10:51, Rob Thomas wrote: > > Quick summary of the problem: > > * From the description it appears to be a kernel-level issue - when a > MikroTik device receives a magic IPv6 packet, it will panic. > * MikroTik have known about it for almost a year, and have not fixed it. > *

Re: [AusNOG] Equinix SY1 gone dark?

2019-03-14 Thread Mark Smith
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Re: [AusNOG] Equinix SY1 gone dark?

2019-03-14 Thread Mark Smith
A building is a SPOF, and they fail easily enough like Warrnambool did (and other exchanges have caught on fire too in the last 15 or so years, like Glenunga and Kangaroo Island.) What happens if an NBN POI catches on fire and burns down? On Thu., 14 Mar. 2019, 17:45 Shah Hardik, wrote: > Tha

Re: [AusNOG] NBN POI contact

2019-03-11 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon., 11 Mar. 2019, 17:40 Chris Ford, wrote: > > You need to build to all 121 NBN POIs. > > You can't just put equipment into one. > > If you are a hyperlocal provider and only need to connect to handful of > POIs, especially if you are regional, then this might work. > > But yes, a build it a

Re: [AusNOG] "However, for the best possible experience, we recommend enabling IPv6 on your network."

2019-02-23 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun., 24 Feb. 2019, 13:35 Robert Hudson, wrote: > > > On Sun, 24 Feb. 2019, 11:03 am Mark Smith, wrote: > >> >> >> So an ISP supplied a router that only had IPv6 enabled? I doubt that >> has ever happened, but if it has, switching on IPv4 on the router &

Re: [AusNOG] "However, for the best possible experience, we recommend enabling IPv6 on your network."

2019-02-23 Thread Mark Smith
bricks are good. Then he contradicts his own earlier statement about stopping deploying IPv6: "The new network will be fully dual-stacked for now, and frankly, for the foreseeable future." Huh? I though they stopped deploying IPv6? > CH. > > Sent from my iPhone >

Re: [AusNOG] "However, for the best possible experience, we recommend enabling IPv6 on your network."

2019-02-22 Thread Mark Smith
re Anderson discovered the PlayStation doing some IPv6, although at the time it almost seemed to be about measuring how much IPv6 was out there. https://toreanderson.github.io/2016/06/15/ipv6-support-in-the-playstation-4.html > CH. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 22 Feb 2019,

[AusNOG] "However, for the best possible experience, we recommend enabling IPv6 on your network."

2019-02-22 Thread Mark Smith
"IPv6 on Xbox One" https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/networking/ipv6-on-xbox-one ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog

Re: [AusNOG] NTP Best Current Practices Internet Draft

2019-02-01 Thread Mark Smith
If that's the case, I'd buy/find a 3rd party NTP client for my Windows boxes. (Don't have any so don't have this problem.) > > > > From: AusNOG on behalf of O'Connor, Daniel > > Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2019 1

Re: [AusNOG] NTP Best Current Practices Internet Draft

2019-02-01 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 12:31, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: > > > > > On 2 Feb 2019, at 11:48, Mark Smith wrote: > > The problem that occurred with 0.au.pool.ntp.org proving bad time > > wouldn't have had an effect if the Windows domain controller had at > &

[AusNOG] NTP Best Current Practices Internet Draft

2019-02-01 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, Saw the thread about NTP, and thought I'd send this IETF Internet Draft on NTP BCPs. Network Time Protocol Best Current Practices https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-bcp-12 It recommends is 4 or more separate NTP time sources, and diverse reference clocks. The reason to have a number

Re: [AusNOG] NBN as an end to end solution - Failure or Success?

2019-01-23 Thread Mark Smith
BCP89/RFC3819, "Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers" BCP69/RFC3449, "TCP Performance Implications of Network Path Asymmetry" > @Nathan.Ridge - I appreciate the reply and information. > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 14:11, Mark Smith wrote: >> >> A to

Re: [AusNOG] NBN as an end to end solution - Failure or Success?

2019-01-23 Thread Mark Smith
A topic for discussion on Whirlpool. On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 14:05, Jason Leschnik wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm just trying to get myself a little bit better informed about NBN as an > end to end solution. I see a lot of angst out in the community about the > different access types (FTTx) and the

Re: [AusNOG] NBN Senate Hearing from 7th Dec 2018

2019-01-08 Thread Mark Smith
Whirlpool is that way -> https://whirlpool.net.au/ On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 23:11, Mark Stewart wrote: > > Please find below the link for the NBN Senate hearing on the 7th Dec 2018 > with Mike Quigley. > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFvcl_imHc&fbclid=IwAR07_HFp9WeAIyqSkMTVE95xy8ezPE2a

[AusNOG] IPv6 enabled Christmas tree

2018-12-24 Thread Mark Smith
https://jinglepings.com/ ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog

Re: [AusNOG] Slack Channel

2018-12-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 16:02, Nathan Brookfield wrote: > > AUSNOG had a slack channel? > No. > > > From: AusNOG On Behalf Of Cameron Murray > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 3:53 PM > To: > Subject: [AusNOG] Slack Channel > > > > Sorry for the noise but What happened to the Slack channel? > >

Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNog] : Re Data Centre Fire Suppression Safety

2018-12-13 Thread Mark Smith
On the other end of the scale is how you intentionally destroy your data in a hurry in a DC. "DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 05:02, Bevan Slattery wrote: > > It

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

2018-12-04 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 10:30, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > If this passes I can see similar legislation being introduced in other > jurisdictions. Most definitely. "‘Five Eyes’ nations quietly demand government access to encrypted data" https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/five-eyes-nations

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

2018-12-04 Thread Mark Smith
Asking for a friend. Did anybody else get an Android 9 update yesterday? On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 07:12, Scott Weeks wrote: > > > > --- m...@chrishawker.com.au wrote: > From: Christopher Hawker > > https://apple.news/AOnumlAB9THOmg_8mnMS9DA > - > > >

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

2018-12-02 Thread Mark Smith
e at it, suggestions that EA could be achieved by pushing the onus > for EA authentication to service provider mechanisms, is deeply flawed, but > the security experts pushing this will get the ear of governments if no one > else has anything constructive to say. > > K

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

2018-12-01 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 13:17, Paul Wilkins wrote: > > “We have said we are willing to pass a bill by Thursday, which gives > appropriate powers, these powers, to national security agencies with > appropriate oversight to target criminals and people who are being > investigated for child sex crim

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

2018-11-29 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri., 30 Nov. 2018, 15:52 Paul Wilkins Apparently PJCIS may be considering limiting the Bill to exercise by ASIO > and the AFP only, and limiting scope of crimes to only terrorism and child > abuse related. That would be of huge assistance in allaying public concerns > its a stalking horse for

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

2018-11-27 Thread Mark Smith
ssistance > and Access Bill leaves Law Enforcement as the decision makers as to what and > how is to be investigated. It is actually possible to simultaneously want to > see the rule of law be enforced, but without establishing the machinery of a > police state. > > Kind regards > > Pa

[AusNOG] Sneakernet for your smartphone

2018-11-27 Thread Mark Smith
"LGR - Using a Floppy Disk Drive on a Smartphone" https://youtu.be/iT1l8Dcjb1Y What he does at 7:40 makes it even better. ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

2018-11-27 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 11:29, Scott Weeks wrote: > > > > --- paulwilkins...@gmail.com wrote: > From: Paul Wilkins > > I do think (and it's not a generally popular position) that > the internet does need to, and is going to be, regulated. > > >

Re: [AusNOG] Windows 10 Pro Hangs after login

2018-11-27 Thread Mark Smith
As the OP said, this is off-topic for this list. On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 13:11, Matthew Young wrote: > > This is usually issues with the user profile service, it's either failing > waiting for a dependent service to start or it's latency caused by not being > able to load/create redirected fold

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

2018-11-27 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 08:56, Mark Newton wrote: > > Their real target is the same as it was in the 2008-2010 censorware fight: > > They want to make it clear that this is not territory which is unregulated; > that they can and will interfere with it if and when it suits them. > > I doubt they ev

Re: [AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

2018-11-22 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri., 23 Nov. 2018, 16:46 Robert Hudson > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 14:47, Paul Brooks > wrote: > >> On 23/11/2018 11:37 AM, Alex Samad wrote: >> > Wondering what the implications of this bill and the recent China was >> stealing our >> > traffic >> > >> > So in theory could china steal / s

Re: [AusNOG] "How China diverts, then spies on Australia's internet traffic"

2018-11-21 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 09:03, Ken Sayers wrote: > > This was discussed some time ago from a North American perspective in this > article. > As I have said for years, "The internet was created in an age in innocence". > As a result, the basic architecture of the network is open to exploitation.

Re: [AusNOG] Sexual harassment in our industry.

2018-10-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 17:41, Mark Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 16:50, Paul Wilkins wrote: > > > > The need for a Code of Conduct has been raised and it's a good point. > > > > While we're at it though, there needs to be female representati

Re: [AusNOG] Sexual harassment in our industry.

2018-10-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 16:50, Paul Wilkins wrote: > > The need for a Code of Conduct has been raised and it's a good point. > > While we're at it though, there needs to be female representation on the > Ausnog board. I see where there's 5 directors been appointed, and they're all > men. I'm wonde

Re: [AusNOG] *** STOP THREAD *** Sexual Harassment at AUSNOG Industry Events

2018-09-30 Thread Mark Smith
What needs to be further discussed? How is there any ambiguity? This harassment is wrong regardless of when and where it occurs. On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 13:05, Robert Hudson wrote: > > I tend to agree with Paul - if the list charter means we can't discuss a > bloody serious issue about how some

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

2018-09-13 Thread Mark Smith
osing solutions, you are tacitly endorsing the legislation. Seems you have some authoritarian tendencies. > Kind regards > > Paul Wilkins > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 12:58, Mark Smith wrote: > >> You realise you're being an enabler don't you? >> >>

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

2018-09-12 Thread Mark Smith
You realise you're being an enabler don't you? On Thu., 13 Sep. 2018, 09:35 Paul Wilkins, wrote: > If there were an equivalent to certificate transparency logs for our data > retention laws and for these proposed technical assistance requests, you > could be sure that they'd be used much more re

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2017-12-12 Thread Mark Smith
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Re: [AusNOG] iiNet Business NBN Issues

2017-12-04 Thread Mark Smith
Cisco ARP timeout is 4 hours (14400 seconds). You're waiting for that ARP entry to timeout. Clearing DHCP leases would also likely clear the ARP entry. IPv6 ND doesn't have this problem because it performs Neighbour Unreachability Detection. On 5 Dec. 2017 2:53 pm, "Philip Loenneker" wrote: Ye

Re: [AusNOG] Mobile porting gone wrong

2017-11-23 Thread Mark Smith
TIO On 23 Nov. 2017 7:33 pm, "Dino Sosic" wrote: > Hey guys, > > If i moved a mobile number from vodafone to optus but still have issues > with getting short codes and also sms sent from vodafone network, who > should be able to fix that? New carrier or old one? > Short codes and sms both are st

Re: [AusNOG] Speeds to international - acceptable minimum

2017-10-12 Thread Mark Smith
You can only assure what you can control. On 12 Oct. 2017 6:23 pm, "Dino Sosic" wrote: > Hi, > > > > Out of curiosity, if you get a 250 mbps circuit from an ISP (IP transit > service) and all is fine within ANZ but as soon as you go international > speed tests show 2/2 mbps, FTP transfers show 7

Re: [AusNOG] Business customer smashing their "unlimited" MBE 20/20Mbps internet service

2017-09-28 Thread Mark Smith
Unlimited* *Not without limits. On 28 Sep. 2017 2:19 pm, "Nathan Brookfield" wrote: > James, > > I agree with all of the other comments, especially David’s. If you sell a > Midband Ethernet at 20/20 which is ‘Unlimited’ or ‘Flatrate’ you should > expect that the client may either use

Re: [AusNOG] Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms

2017-09-19 Thread Mark Smith
On 19 Sep. 2017 5:36 pm, "Paul Wilkins" wrote: "you just have to try your best" goes only as far as the provider's internal network and systems. There's no provision for protection of the data plane or services delivered to third parties. Yes there is, and most of it is around 20 years old c.f

Re: [AusNOG] to US via Vocus

2017-09-11 Thread Mark Smith
I know there are Ladies here too, ignoring them in your salutation might not result in the best and quickest help you can get. 'Hello/Hi All' is the best salutation. Even better is to call Vocus first, and if you haven't been helped effectively, state that or describe why you're resorting to askin

Re: [AusNOG] NBN reveals ugly truth of profit margin destruction in telco land

2017-09-01 Thread Mark Smith
This would be better discussed on Whirlpool. On 2 Sep. 2017 08:01, "Nikolai Lusan" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hey, > > On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 22:06 +0200, ausf...@mail.com wrote: > > > The 2018 to 2021 corporate plan released on Thursday says NBN Co's > > reven

[AusNOG] Chasing up the story behind an OUI assigned to RMIT and others

2017-08-29 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, Somebody recently contacted me regarding trying to find out the story behind an IEEE OUI. The OUI is 08-00-30. Somebody from CERN is trying to find out what the story with it is, as according to the IEEE's database, it has been assigned to 3 different organisations: * CERN * NETWORK RESEARCH

Re: [AusNOG] Victorian Police - internal assistance??

2017-08-29 Thread Mark Smith
On 30 August 2017 at 11:04, Ross Wheeler wrote: > > *Still shaking my head in disbelief* > > Just had a call from a local police officer. Identified himself and his > station, investigating a suicide. (Not sure why I had to know that, but > anyway). > Are you sure they were who they said they wer

Re: [AusNOG] QoS on Internet traffic

2017-08-20 Thread Mark Smith
real time services, could have those demands met in > the market. The advertisers resist this, because they would be relegated to > carriage with bulk data. > > Kind regards > > Paul Wilkins > > On 20 August 2017 at 14:23, Mark Smith wrote: > >> So I'm try

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