Re: [AusNOG] Understanding the WHS responsibilities when served a LAAN by a Telco

I have seen a few variations of this theme, and here's a couple of ways it has been worked out, but they still require a lawyer to draft something: - The site has various risks associated with it, so the Telco must use an approved contractor - then have that contractor pay the fee and be part of

Re: [AusNOG] munnari.oz.au

From: d...@dns.god Newsgroups: aus.jokes Subject: The Holy DNS Commandments Date: 22 Aug 1995 06:13:04 GMT And behold, there were great thunder and lightnings, and the mighty prophet Gehofrey came down from the temple of Munnari and told Children of AU that the Lord God Kre had vouchedsafe unto

Re: [AusNOG] Courier insurance

People don't choose "courier" or "forklift driver" as their vocation out of a burning desire to serve their fellow humans, so there's always an element of risk in shipping. Having said that, consider medical couriers as an option. These are people who are usually hand-picked from courier

Re: [AusNOG] Optus downtime chat + affecting SMS verification toTelstra?

The default behaviour of the "maximum prefix" BGP feature is to bring down the BGP session with the peer. The alternate behaviour is to log a warning and accept a prefix. I am not aware of an implementation that just allows "Accept up to X routes and then don't accept any more". That sounds

Re: [AusNOG] Optus downtime chat + affecting SMS verification to Telstra?

n from all the head shaking it'll likely induce. > > BB > > > > > Interestingly, my Optus mobile actually had a valid connection for a > short time - wasn't able to actually DO anything, but was connected to > the OPtus network - but it's now gone to "SOS" m

Re: [AusNOG] Optus downtime chat + affecting SMS verification to Telstra?

The 4am Wednesday morning outage start looks suspiciously like a firmware upgrade window. I note that Optus devices where I am are showing "SoS" which indicates the tower is unable to reach the location register, which presumably is on a private network and indicative of a pretty major fault

Re: [AusNOG] what is acceptable jitter for VOIP & videoconferencing?

If it's not already obvious, I would like to mention that jitter/buffering on video is just about a non-issue (otherwise Microsoft Teams wouldn't exist) - but for audio it is everything. Users will notice 20ms of audio delay as a lip sync issue on a streaming movie, but for videoconferencing the

[AusNOG] Telecommunications Congestion in Sydney 1912

For anyone who's ever had to deal with network congestion, here's an Australian example from 1912 where Telegrams were delayed by up to an hour instead of their usual 3 minutes. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105273488/10490125# John ___

Re: [AusNOG] curious about lessons learned from your fiber rollouts?

My tips: Rural networks are economically tentative at the best of times, they are low density and the majority of the demographic that they serve don't have disposable income for tech entertainment. Government funding likes to be directed to announceables, and nobody announces a maintenance plan.

Re: [AusNOG] NBN to offshore NOC?

NBN's purpose is to lift the digital capability of Australia. https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/about-nbn-co/our-purpose The takeaway from offshoring activities is that the Australian government does not consider Network Operations to be a digital capability. John On Fri, 17 Mar

Re: [AusNOG] Vocus Datacentre outage.

Don't rule out a firmware setting that lay dormant or was introduced through overzealous or simultaneous patching in a maintenance window. This was how SA ended up with a total blackout a few years back - a default setting in a particular model of wind turbine shut it down in response to a

Re: [AusNOG] Superloop NBN Outage

One way to get information about an outage at a particular NBN POI is to drive to the POI location and look for the logos on the vans attending to the fault. If it's a fibre cut, then someone has to go there to connect the OTDR, usually in a high-roof splicing van. If there are no vans, or the

Re: [AusNOG] ISDN shutdown 31 May 2022

I saw Steve Baxter set a Netcomm modem rack on fire at one of his legendary Senet barbecues. Although it was well deserved; given the amount of toxic black smoke that followed I would not recommend this course of action. John (still unable to get Q.931 bearer capability codes out of my head 20

Re: [AusNOG] Banking outages.

FWIW, there's also a state-wide EFTPOS outage here in SA. https://twitter.com/ServiceSAOnline/status/1405395096422420482?s=20 John On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 at 15:29, DaZZa wrote: > Apparently, most of the big 4 (and a lot of other!) banks are having major > issues with online sites. > > Anyone

Re: [AusNOG] 1 Class C

In 2021, would it be feasible to use an IPv6 range for the BGP peering setup, even for sharing IPv4 prefixes? Then you could just use RFC1918 addresses for the v4 interfaces, or even recycle the range allocated to the first IX as it doesn't usually need to be reachable - just transitable. John

Re: [AusNOG] Bigpond email abuse

Be sure to check in on your elderly neighbours to make sure that they're not still using Eudora Mail with plaintext POP3 passwords John On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 14:34, James Williamson < james.william...@plc.wa.edu.au> wrote: > Hi All, > > We saw an external user a few months ago who had their

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra NB-IOT with NIDD

History has not been kind to wireless protocols beyond basic IP. WiMax had IPv4, IPv6, PPPoE and ethernet frames as protocol types in the specifications, but vendors only ever implemented IPv4 and put the rest as "coming soon". LTE had IPv6 as an additional licence charge from some vendors. If

Re: [AusNOG] Automatic transfer switches and generators

For a truly paranoid setup, you can put an additional ATS *after* the UPS. This potentially lets you replace a failed or failing UPS without downtime. One time, this saved me because the UPS took a catastrophic surge to its input side, but the inverter and batteries kept powering the network.

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

All of the DSLAMs that Australian carriers are throwing in the bin right now have $20 gas-discharge lightning arrestors on every port to comply with TEBA rules around LSS connections. I imagine that FTTC has no such requirement because there is no expensive voice exchange to protect. Underground

Re: [AusNOG] Azure AD - Office 365 outage

It is Office 364 now On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 08:36, Dewayne Geraghty < dewa...@heuristicsystems.com.au> wrote: > On 29/09/2020 8:32 am, Mark Anthony Delfin wrote: > > Good morning all! > > > > Looks like early morning issues for some > > https://status.office365.com/

Re: [AusNOG] Foxtel v Opticomm

This is an interesting issue that may not be easily resolved. According to Foxtel docs like https://www.foxtel.com.au/content/dam/foxtel/support/pdf/FXTL-T-0219%20Satellite%20Multistacker%20Installation%20Requirements%20Issue%201%20revpdf the satellite transponder frequencies span

Re: [AusNOG] EFPOST terminals down

Tips are low priority areas for mobile coverage. They are deliberately built where no-one else is, such that they would account for the majority of an expensive mobile sector. I imagine that most EFTPOS terminals are still 3G. If 3G failed, most of us with a smartphone less than 5 years old

Re: [AusNOG] (no subject)

Hi Richard, If you only need 100M ethernet, have some RJ45 jacks or plugs, and the appropriate crimping/punchdown tool, you can probably make a passive one yourself. These days you can buy the parts you need from a hardware store electrical aisle. Effectively it's a Y-interface where one

Re: [AusNOG] Guest SSID tap to join devices

Hi Qui, The device you've mentioned appears to use the NFC "Connection Handover" feature, more info here: http://nfc-forum.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ConnectionHandoverUserExperience-White-Paper-Sept14F1.pdf You don't need a special device to do this, just programmable NFC tags. This

Re: [AusNOG] Mobile Data Capacity - Where's the bottleneck?

ou say, but the Capex of > deploying all that fibre would be huge, especially as cells get more > abundant. That's why everyone really likes packets :) > > Rob > > On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 16:16, John Edwards wrote: > >> Dark fibre to cell sites opens up more

Re: [AusNOG] Mobile Data Capacity - Where's the bottleneck?

Dark fibre to cell sites opens up more possibilities than just bandwidth. Potentially the raw analogue waves from antennas can be re-modulated onto DWDM wavelengths and then digitally [de]modulated in a datacenter. This makes the whole process more efficient, reducing power and weight

Re: [AusNOG] Mobile Data Capacity - Where's the bottleneck?

It's complicated Ignoring channel aggregation (CA), the maximum amount of spectrum available to an LTE endpoint is 20Mhz, which is shared with everyone in the same sector. The amount of spectrum might be as small as 1.5Mhz If you have say an iPhone X with 2x2 MIMO, and can stand close enough to

Re: [AusNOG] COVID-19 Business Prep Suggestions

I thought that the cloudflare guys made a good point that VPN concentrators and traditional IT policy are going to be a complication if everyone has to work from home, and that switching to some kind of SSO with publicly accessible web apps is more scalable. Possibly they said this because they

Re: [AusNOG] Leaky Feeder & UTP

Running leaky feeder at 100W EIRP is going to cause all kinds of major issues, although induced current in nearby UTP probably isn't one of them. Technically a "radiated" signal from notches in leaky feeder is going to be at right angles to parallel cables and unable to induce a current, the risk

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

Every bit of territory that your "sworn competitor" gives up by putting call data on your network instead of their private mobile network is territory that it may never get back. Imagine what WiFi calling is doing for International roaming revenue if every call now looks like a local origination.

Re: [AusNOG] Risks to country and business infrastructure

The world was much simpler when ISP's could just print Invoices direct to customer printers on Windows 95 dialup connections.. On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 08:20, Matt Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:25:49PM +1000, Andras Toth wrote: > > This is the same as saying it's Amazon's fault

Re: [AusNOG] Risks to country and business infrastructure

A movie that details such a corporate destruction is “Fight Club” and I note that pushing additional risk-solving process onto security staff may have actually exacerbated that scenario. > On 6 Sep 2019, at 10:51 am, Mark Newton wrote: > > That’s a bit of a movie-plot threat, though.

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra Exchange Access (Break-in's)

Think rows and rows of big copper earthing bars, like a jackpot for a thief who's used to opportunistically targeting hot water systems. How does everyone here monitor for a failed earth? John On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 13:50, Mark Delany wrote: > > 26 exchanges, that's absolutely insane, thanks

Re: [AusNOG] Tracing a stolen mobile phone

http://www.amta.org.au/pages/Lost.and.stolen.phones *7.**No tracking of lost or stolen mobiles:* Your carrier does not track lost and stolen mobiles and they cannot be pinpointed. I have spotted devices with the logos of Australian carriers in the windows of phone shops around South East

Re: [AusNOG] NBN NCAS on Cisco 867VAE-K9

The 867VAE won't work I am told that the 867VAE-K9 does work, but I am not sure we have run one on NBN. 867VAE-W-A-K9 works on FTTN - if it has IOS version 15.4(3)M5 or newer, and VDSL firmware VAEW_A_39t_B_39d_24m.SSA John On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 11:59, Pouya Madani wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone

Re: [AusNOG] Wanted - Fibre connectivity in Peterborough SA

Did you sight this location on a map before you made this request? John On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 09:00, Philip Loenneker < philip.loenne...@tasmanet.com.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > We are looking for someone who can provide a 1Gbps fibre service in the > area of Peterborough District Council,

Re: [AusNOG] Damage to iiNET HFC cable

Councils are usually pretty good at having local contacts to report faults with physical telco infrastructure. Where aerial cable is hanging low, refer to Commsalliance S009:2013, which requires 4.9m above a road, but only 2.7m above customer premises land.

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

FM200 residue is mostly all of the gunk and grease in the pipes left over from their manufacture and threaded-metal-fitting assembly. John > On 14 Dec 2018, at 4:31 am, Bevan Slattery wrote: > > It’s pretty much all been said. > > Halon (long gone). Reaction sucks oxygen out of air. > FM200

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

FM200 gas is banned for new systems in Europe due to HFC pollutants. It is not a good idea to install it today. This gas is stored at high pressure - if it leaked you would be aware of the explosive decompression, even without the alarms. I can confirm that inhaling this stuff won't immediately

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra and Vocus Peering

: > > Looking at 3.6: > > > > 3.6 The peering partner's nationally deployed resilient Internet backbone > network should > > operate on circuits of at least 50% of Telstra’s Internet backbone network > from Perth > > to Brisbane that is dedicated to public I

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra and Vocus Peering

Links to peering docs from the ACCC web site: https://www.telstrawholesale.com.au/content/dam/tw/products/data_ip/Telstra%20Wholesale%20Internet1/Telstra%20Peering%20Guidelines.pdf https://www.tpg.com.au/peering-guidelines

Re: [AusNOG] Common Sense needs to prevail

Flirting with "a cute guy or girl" at an industry function is inappropriate. There are apps for that now, save the face to face for professional relationship building. Imagine thinking that someone was interested in you for your skills or experience, only to find that you misread "innocent

Re: [AusNOG] Mobile network-provided time zone

Network Identity and TimeZone (NITZ); https://portal.3gpp.org/desktopmodules/Specifications/SpecificationDetails.aspx?specificationId=576 "The feature Network Identities and Timezone shall make it possible for a serving PLMN to transfer its current identity, universal time, DST and LTZ to MSs,

Re: [AusNOG] Sexual harassment in our industry.

I think that you need to be careful defining "merit" for an organisation who's primary functions are to run a conference and mailing list. Just because all of the past and present Ausnog directors can configure BGP with the best of them doesn't automatically qualify them to sit on a board and

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra DNS contact

Off-topic, but every time a Telstra DNS issue comes up my mind recalls the old telstra.net cgi-bin's with the "contact rchew" in italics at the bottom of the page. These simple web forms had some powerful functions, were ahead of their time and built a cornerstone of the early Australian Internet.

Re: [AusNOG] Power Source for Cisco AP1572EAC

The 3-pin AC plug is a Remke connector, you're not likely to find one of these commonly used in Australia. Try an 802.3at PoE injector - it should be enough power to boot the device, but not power on all the antennas or mimo processing The HFC model can be phantom powered from the coax cable -

Re: [AusNOG] Captive Portal + Daily Usage

Captive portals reduce engagement with WiFi networks by an order of magnitude. Captive portals that require a login, even if its free, reduce engagement by a further order of magnitude. If the goal is for the public to benefit from the free WiFi then this is a contrary requirement. Sydney

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra mobile issues again?

VoWiFi allows your mobile number to work over 3rd party networks, assuming your home carrier's core is still running. Americans who tour international conferences nearly always have T-Mobile sims because the VoWiFi works better than roaming. Also; the cool kids use HSS instead of HLR now,

Re: [AusNOG] Security, the government, and sweets

Sending an email with all recipients in the to: field all is practically ceremony for new government initiatives at this point. John On 10 November 2017 at 19:18, Chris Hurley wrote: > Alas have seen the same thing more than once from Government(s) and other > bodies

Re: [AusNOG] 10GBs

Always clean brand new patch cables. There is a specific exception for some cable systems designed to be installed at heights while wearing rigging gloves, the kind of environment where a cleaning attempt could make things worse. In that case, the manufacturer warrants a consistent lab-tested

Re: [AusNOG] TPP wholesale - urgent

If you are an old testament sysadmin, the appropriate deity for Australian domains is Lord God Kre, from the temple of Munnari. On 23 October 2017 at 18:52, Ross Wheeler wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, Luke Fong wrote: > > If there is anyone on list that could assist, please

Re: [AusNOG] NBN Action (potentially semi-political post)

The NBN roadmap shows "Advanced OAM" due for 2019. It's hard to say if it would be any help in identifying congestion culprits, but if implemented it is a step in the direction of transparency. John On 29 September 2017 at 11:19, Ross Wheeler wrote: > > Really just

Re: [AusNOG] Contention, congestion, and link capacity planning

If anyone is really keen on this topic, there is a research group in Australia with comms traffic as its focus: http://www.trc.adelaide.edu.au/trc/ Once upon a time they had a published model for contention that mapped well to real world dialup service data. John On 19 September 2017 at

Re: [AusNOG] Solomon Islands loses landing rights for a cable in Sydney

Solomon Islands is part of the Commonwealth, like Australia. Pacific islands have historically been strategic locations. Military have always been keen on having their comms run through controlled territories. WW1 telegraphs to Australia went London => Capetown => Cocos Islands => Freemantle =>