Re: [AusNOG] Looking for a senior service desk / L2+ support person

On 16 Mar 2024, at 15:12, Jennifer Sims wrote: > > This is the problem I see all the time. People demanding huge salaries they > can’t justify. And it ruins the process for qualified candidates. The problem here is one of perspective and expectations. The average full time adult pre tax wage

[AusNOG] Is anyone from Twitter NetOps here?

Looking for someone from Twitter NetOps who can take a look at a traffic filtering problem for me. - mark -- Tiny screen, imaginary keyboard. ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog

Re: [AusNOG] Dark fibre or WAVE service

Can’t you get Equinix to give you an interfacility crossconnect? - mark > On 3 Sep 2020, at 4:18 PM, Kevin Windsor wrote: > > Hi Ausnog, > > I'm looking for dark fibre or wave connectivity with diversity between > Equinix SY4 and SY6 (Metronode) > > Could relevant suppliers hit me up

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra IPv6 Wireless Enablement - IPv6 Single Stack

Excellent to see. - mark > On Feb 6, 2020, at 3:27 PM, Russell Langton wrote: > > Hi AusNOGgers, > > Following our dual-stack enablement in Aug 2016, Telstra is proud the > announce the second step in our transition to IPv6 - IPv6 Single-Stack > deployment on Telstra wireless. > This

Re: [AusNOG] Experience with cybercrime reports and telco restrictions?

The police shouldn't be talking to you about other peoples' networks and services (even if you could help, you're unlikely to provide evidentiary value because the best you can do is speculate). The best way to work with them is to point them at the email provider and say, "You're gonna have

Re: [AusNOG] Expression of Interest Singapore – to Melbourne / Sydney Capacity Group Buy

On Sep 25, 2019, at 2:21 PM, James Braunegg wrote: > I have had lots of enquires and even some capacity wholesales complaining > that the price of $1.50 USD is too low…. That is a very informative signal you can use to judge the trustworthiness of your capacity wholesaler. - mark

Re: [AusNOG] Risks to country and business infrastructure

On 5 Sep 2019, at 11:55 PM, Chris Macko wrote: > Examples of this include TIA942 and the Uptime Institute specs requiring > bullet proof glass yet no one has a procedure to stop 1kg let alone 100kg of > servers filled with explosives from entering our data centres disguised as > normal server

Re: [AusNOG] NBN and /24

It isn't "fancy stuff," it's a standard part of their service. NBN with a business pack, open a ticket and they'll route prefixes for you. (IPv6 prefixes too) I have no idea whether it's hard or annoying to get them to fix it when it breaks because, touch wood, it hasn't. It just does what it

Re: [AusNOG] Locate a Telstra DSL service from details in a RADIUS packet?

On 9 Jul 2019, at 4:41 PM, Andrew Yager wrote: > In our RAIDUS packets generated from our LAC we have a bunch of information > about Telstra DSL services when they terminate on our network. We have a > rogue service that we are trying to locate the FNN it's actually on, but that > useful data

Re: [AusNOG] Tracing a stolen mobile phone

There have been a couple of car thieves found in the last few weeks who have run off with vehicles which have iPhones or iPads in them, and the owners have used "Find my iPhone" to locate them, which is excruciatingly funny.

Re: [AusNOG] More legislative interventions

“Tech companies” already employ human screening. That’s why the Christchurch response that the politicians are all panicking about worked so well. For all their faults, I think Facebook’s response to the livestreaming was superb. According to press accounts a couple of weeks ago, they took it

Re: [AusNOG] More legislative interventions

On 9 Apr 2019, at 2:22 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote: > 2 - Ensure you have in place a mechanism to match electronic fingerprints of > material similar to anything identified in a eSafety Commissioner's notice. Paul, no, you’re really going to have to explain how that’s supposed to work if you’re

Re: [AusNOG] More legislative interventions

This passed the Senate after 90 seconds of debate without the bill itself being made available to MPs last night. It passed the House today after about four minutes of debate with no crossbenchers being allowed to speak. It’ll receive royal assent and become law, probably tomorrow. But sure,

Re: [AusNOG] AARNet's IPv6 Broker is being shutdown on the 7th of April 2019 at 10pm AEST

This has lived for way longer than it ever should have. Thank you for the valued contribution AARNet has made to IPv6 adoption across the community. Regards, - mark > On 1 Apr 2019, at 3:45 PM, Warrick Mitchell > wrote: > > Dear AusNOG, > > Please be advised that after many years of

Re: [AusNOG] IPv6 enabled Christmas tree

FINALLY the IPv6 killer app. - mark > On 25 Dec 2018, at 10:11 AM, Mark Smith wrote: > > https://jinglepings.com/ > ___ > AusNOG mailing list > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog

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

Halon was banned at the same time as CFCs in aerosols and refrigerants because it's an Ozone depleting gas. There should not be any Halon datacentres anywhere in Australia. Probably not anywhere in the world, tbqh. Aviation is an exempt use, which is why you saw it on your C-17. You can buy

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

On 12/05/2018 11:48 AM, Paul Wilkins wrote: "If this passes I can see similar legislation being introduced in other jurisdictions." I think this legislation and all its warts is going to be a particularly Australian feature. Exported globally, though. A 5-eyes power who wants to surveil

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

On Nov 30, 2018, at 3:51 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote: > Now before people start complaining that such a move would still enable > invasions of privacy, consider, "first they came for the terrorists and child > abusers" said no one ever. Excuse me? It’s in such common usage that it has its own

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

at this stage. But that isn’t important. It’s all about the agencies sticking their thumb onto an industry segment and saying, “We’re in charge of this.” - mark > On 28 Nov 2018, at 8:25 AM, Robert Hudson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 16:04, Mark Newton <mailto:new.

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

On Nov 23, 2018, at 4:46 PM, Robert Hudson wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 14:47, Paul Brooks > wrote: > In theory no - this bill doesn't weaken encryption, and explicitly doesn't > allow any > changes that would weaken encryption. > > They say that -

Re: [AusNOG] AAPT announcing my IP range (STOP IT!)

On Oct 15, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Shannon Stadtmiller wrote: > Probably best that you speak directly with your RSP/Reseller in relation to > the /24 range and ensuring that this is given back to you. > As the cancellation is raised by your RSP/Reseller, it is up to them to raise > it correctly to

Re: [AusNOG] Common Sense needs to prevail

On Oct 9, 2018, at 4:13 PM, Shanti Korporaal wrote: > What she should have done is told the event organiser then and there, and if > super inappropriate, called them out for it then and there. I for one would > have knocked them on their ass and shoved any phone with inappropriate >

Re: [AusNOG] Common Sense needs to prevail

ry > poor form. > > > > Stephen Carter > > > From: AusNOG On Behalf Of Mark Newton > Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2018 9:23 AM > To: Skeeve Stevens > Cc: > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Common Sense needs to prevail > > So the message here is that w

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

You just opened up a brand new thread about it with a three page email. - mark -- Tiny screen, imaginary keyboard. > On 9 Oct 2018, at 07:33, Skeeve Stevens > wrote: > > Yes, it does need to be discussed... but not on Ausnog. > > This is an operational list relating to the Operations

Re: [AusNOG] Common Sense needs to prevail

So the message here is that we should go easy on sexual harassment at AusNOG events because you did alright out of it. Loud and clear. - mark -- Tiny screen, imaginary keyboard. > On 9 Oct 2018, at 08:31, Skeeve Stevens > wrote: > > I hate to do this. I'm going to contradict my

[AusNOG] Fwd: What I can do to help./Ticket#8816259/Req Scheduling

Seriously? - mark Begin forwarded message: > From: Anittel Service Team > Date: 1 October 2018 at 7:53:27 am ACST > To: > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] What I can do to help./Ticket#8816259/Req Scheduling > > > --REPLY above this line to respond-- > > > > Your

[AusNOG] What I can do to help.

If you feel harassed within the AusNOG community, I will: 1. Listen to you and believe you. 2. Find somewhere quiet, safe, and harassment-free to have a conversation with you about how best to support you. 3. Support you in the manner we have discussed. 4. Provide you with nonjudgmental

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

On Sep 20, 2018, at 2:43 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote: > > Mark, > Most people read "delusional" as meaning as so out of touch with reality as > to be indulging in fantasy. Yes, exactly. Thank you for clarifying, that’s precisely what I meant. > But not so, clearly there is a strong precedent,

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

islation. > > I'm sure Mark you're aware the UK surveillance powers have had to be > redrafted after a challenge to the European Court of Human Rights. > > > Kind regards > > Paul Wilkins > > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 at 14:22, Mark Newton <mailto:new...@atd

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

“Possible High Court challenge”? Jesus Christ, Paul, what planet are you on? - mark > On Sep 19, 2018, at 12:18 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote: > > So I'd finished reading the submission of the Office of the Australian > Information Commissioner >

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

On Sep 12, 2018, at 10:55 AM, Paul Wilkins wrote: > I can't wait to see the full extent of responses. What I've seen so far > speaks of not just the quality and detail of submissions, but the broad base > of responses, ensuring representation of a diversity of interests, and > raising a

Re: [AusNOG] AusNOG 2018 Event Survey

On Sep 4, 2018, at 9:11 PM, Matthew Everton wrote: > it might be best to try and apply for NBN Skymuster on LOC000… Dawww. I feel bad for them already. - mark ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

On Sep 1, 2018, at 8:18 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote: > > Rather than pick apart each others' semantics, I think we can agree, and the > reality is, that to publish TV/Radio content requires a license. The internet > does not. However, both cross into the public domain in the carriage of > content

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

On 2 Sep 2018, at 04:35, Nick Stallman wrote: > > You could also say that parts of the internet are licensed - E.g. posting on > Facebook requires accepting terms and conditions which if broken can result > in your access being terminated. But the internet in general is unlicensed. >

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

On 20 Aug 2018, at 10:55 AM, Paul Wilkins wrote: > Because the internet is a public medium, unlike radio and television, you > don't require a license to publish content. That makes zero sense. Radio and television are public media, using public spectrum, and that’s the basis of their

Re: [AusNOG] Strange NBN reports from Baldivis area (WA)

Did you ever find out if the root cause of this fault was NBNco deploying DPI middleware? Given that ACCC has RSPs on the hook for performance, that’d be ... concerning. - mark -- Tiny screen, imaginary keyboard. > On 1 Aug 2018, at 10:36, Mark Newton wrote: > > I’m almost

Re: [AusNOG] Strange NBN reports from Baldivis area (WA)

Only if you use lemon-scented fabric softener. - mark > On 13 Aug 2018, at 10:32 pm, Tom Storey wrote: > > The ironing is delicious. > >> On 1 August 2018 at 01:36, Mark Newton wrote: >> I’m almost delighted to see Telstra experiencing the same frustrating iss

Re: [AusNOG] Strange NBN reports from Baldivis area (WA)

I’m almost delighted to see Telstra experiencing the same frustrating issues with wholesalers that everyone else has been forced to deal with for the last 20 years :D - mark > On Aug 1, 2018, at 9:01 AM, Russell Langton wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm seeing some strange NBN fault reports

Re: [AusNOG] Issues receiving from TPG Mail servers.

> On Jul 23, 2018, at 3:27 PM, Rob Thomas wrote: > >> But shouldn't your public mail server be out of scope for PCI? > > Here. ladies and gentleman, is a nerd that has never encountered the > insanity and conflicting information that is PCI. Be quiet, we don't > want to scare it. > > In all

Re: [AusNOG] Issues receiving from TPG Mail servers.

t exception to the rule, if we disable > TLSv1.0 on the server and remove the weak cipher, then TPG's MTAs aren't able > to send mail to us. > > Regards, > > Bradley Silverman | VentraIP Australia > Technical Operations > > mobile. +61 418 641 103 > phone. +61 3

Re: [AusNOG] Issues receiving from TPG Mail servers.

You’re trying to exchange payment card information over email? - mark > On Jul 23, 2018, at 1:30 PM, Bradley Silverman > wrote: > > Does anyone have a contact at TPG regarding their mail servers? > > We are having issues with their mail servers using non-PCI compliant ciphers > which is

Re: [AusNOG] I was thinking of switching my IPv6 tunnel to HE's pop in Sydney ...

It’s 2018 and this is a community full of network operators who can carry native IPv6 if they wish. There is an industry-wide failure to address what’s really a demand for IPv6 packet delivery which is being manifested as a demand for tunnels because that’s the only way of getting IPv6 packet

Re: [AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new record

Reviving an old thread: A typical DoS in the year 2000 was about 100 Mbps. We’re 18 years down the line from that. 14 doublings on 100 Mbps is about 1.6 Tbps, so the first-order derivative of DoS magnitude by year is considerably less than 2. It’s not that far away from linearly tracking the

Re: [AusNOG] Warranty claim on Cisco Nexus bought from and still under contract with Microsoft

Have a read of the advisory, Cisco usually supplies software fixes for security bugs without requiring an active maintenance contract. There’ll be a paragraph there which describes the hoops you need to jump through to get it (typically email a copy of the advisory and a “show version” to

Re: [AusNOG] Megaport IX Sydney - Sudden grows in number of prefixes

Bilateral peering with TPG over the NSW-IX fabric should fix that. - mark > On Jan 12, 2018, at 7:46 AM, John Alexander wrote: > > With this, does anyone know of a way of keeping HE routes, but excluding a > specific one, namely TPG 7545 which is a direct customer of

Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

The phrase, “Of merchantable quality and fitness for purpose,” will become increasingly familiar to vendors over the next few weeks. Note that if you have relied on performance statements from a server vendor, and that performance can’t be delivered because the CPU can’t operate as advertised,

Re: [AusNOG] NBN/ACMA fines etc

a bit weird to expect that they’d suddenly learn for this one specific instance. - mark -- Tiny screen, imaginary keyboard. > On 2 Jan 2018, at 10:59, m...@ozonline.com.au wrote: > > > Quoting Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org>: > >> >>> On 22 Dec 201

Re: [AusNOG] NBN/ACMA fines etc

On 22 Dec 2017, at 10:36 AM, m...@ozonline.com.au wrote: > > Here's an idea, > > Why doesn't the ACMA require NBN to provide a service status page that > an NBN user can key their address into and it shows :- You’re a service provider. Do you really want NBNco playing in your patch? Surely

Re: [AusNOG] Internet Outages in Brisbane area

On Dec 19, 2017, at 9:58 AM, Christopher Hawker wrote: > > TPG have now had at least 3 major fiber cuts in the past 6 weeks. Some form > of policy, law, legislation, (whatever we want to call it) needs to be > introduced where if a civil contractor causes damage to a

Re: [AusNOG] Au > South Africa Customer Link

Have they considered relocating the application? I don’t think you’ll find a low latency path between those two countries, so if the application is latency-sensitive it’s always going to suck. But you might find two best-available paths between each country and a workable midpoint which could

Re: [AusNOG] NBN Price drops

Their billing model is still “port speed based on line rate, aggregation based on peak CIR”, so it’s still completely broken. All they’ve done is fiddle around at the margins of the magnitude of the breakage. Wake me up when they’re serious enough to bill aggregation on a flat-rate-per-port

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

On Nov 10, 2017, at 5:22 PM, paul+aus...@oxygennetworks.com.au wrote: > amazingly the Competition Branch of the Department of Communication and Arts, > decided this morning to send every carrier the email addresses of the primary > contact for every other carrier. The Commonwealth of Australia

Re: [AusNOG] ABC 4Corners - What's Wrong with the NBN?

On Oct 24, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Giles Pollock wrote: > > Difference is on NBN your landline is converted to a VoIP line and provided > by the ISP. Said ISP won't divulge the SIP configuration so if you want to > use it you're locked in to using their provided router. A router

Re: [AusNOG] Hiring 5 x Network Admins and Engineers

Or pay them more or put on monthly free-haircut day or do beer-and-burgers afternoons or whatever. One of the benefits of a competitive free market is that it transparently exposes to companies the things they need to do to retain and develop staff in an environment where there are more jobs

Re: [AusNOG] Speeds to international - acceptable minimum

On 12 Oct 2017, at 6:22 PM, Dino Sosic wrote: > 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 7/8 mbps, would that be

Re: [AusNOG] Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms

und the world sailors). > > Kind regards > > Paul Wilkins > > On 19 September 2017 at 15:50, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org > <mailto:new...@atdot.dotat.org>> wrote: > On Sep 19, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins...@gmail.com > <mailto:p

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

On Sep 19, 2017, at 4:17 PM, John Edwards wrote: > Once upon a time they had a published model for contention that mapped well > to real world dialup service data. Did it involve an Erlang Meter? - mark ___ AusNOG mailing

Re: [AusNOG] Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms

On Sep 19, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote: > > I support the legislation. It's government's responsibility to protect our > national infrastructure. When does your private infrastructure become national infrastructure? What latitude do you have to manage your

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

Anyone without MACSEC and a valid, correctly-formatted certificate can go to hell. - mark > On Aug 31, 2017, at 12:05 PM, John Lindsay wrote: > > And people wonder how the Rapture will select the Blessed and leave the > Damned. > > John Lindsay >

Re: [AusNOG] QoS on Internet traffic

ts > more Internet bandwidth, but not actually solved the problem. It also doesn't > help if there is WAN congestion between the sites as all Internet traffic is > still going to be treated equally in the case of congestion." > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Mark Newton <

Re: [AusNOG] QoS on Internet traffic

It seems to me that this is a problem you’ve created for yourself, by limiting the firewall outside interface to (in your example) 50 Mbps. I think you should go back to basics with your product definition: Is what you’re selling fit for purpose? Is a VPN service which is bottlenecked into the

Re: [AusNOG] NBN and CVC

On Jul 31, 2017, at 10:58 PM, Mark Delany <g...@juliet.emu.st> wrote: > > On 31Jul17, Mark Newton allegedly wrote: >>> What I was thinking is that NBN charges each RSP per byte - that's >>> billing/polling a couple of 100 RSPs at the NNI which strikes me as >>

Re: [AusNOG] NBN and CVC

On Jul 31, 2017, at 4:25 AM, Mark Delany wrote: > > On 30Jul17, Matthew Moyle-Croft allegedly wrote: >> I???m fairly certain that billing systems of this scale are pretty doable >> and not a limiting factor and isn???t a reason to not do this. > > Right. > > What I was

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

On 27 Jul 2017, at 00:43, Jonathan Brewer wrote: > > What's the Australian government's problem? Is it protectionism? Racism? > Something else? Mostly racism and protectionism. It's how Australia rolls. I mean, really: the idea that a cable won't have listening devices

Re: [AusNOG] AusNOG 2017 pre-conference drinks events update

This is why we need an AusNOG lockserver. Pre-conference mutex. - mark > On Jul 19, 2017, at 4:40 PM, David Hughes wrote: > > > Good afternoon all, > > As you can tell by the recent list traffic, we have an abundance of > pre-conference drinks events with both Vocus

Re: [AusNOG] Cisco ASR1001-x netflow

Remember that the 7200 was a software platform, a veritable swiss army chainsaw of routers. Most of the rest of the Cisco service provider products only provide features which are capable of being hardware accelerated. The ASR1k is mostly a software platform, but not totally. So yeah, you

Re: [AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

On 06/15/2017 03:19 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: Why do you think a solution has to work in order for it to become law? Believe me, I've been around the block enough times to know that it doesn't. At any rate, I'm not proposing it as a *good* solution, I'm observing that it is the way things

Re: [AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

On 06/15/2017 12:28 PM, Andrew McN wrote: On 15/06/17 10:06, Matt Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 05:48:38PM +1000, Andrew McN wrote: I doubt they'd bother trying to breaking encryption. It seems more likely that their plan is to force players like Google or IOS to push malware out

Re: [AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

On 13 Jun 2017, at 7:53 pm, Paul Wilkins wrote: > > Firstly, we need to recognise the authority of the State is necessary for > security and freedom. As a concept, and as a question of degree, that claim is quite heavily contested. You're not going to get away

Re: [AusNOG] Team Cymru BGP flap Q

f course. I’ve shoot them an email. But they are not known to be the fastest guys, especially since it’s a free service. This was more of “does or did anyone else from AU have issues regarding this?” J Ta Dino *From:*Mark Newton [mailto:new...@atdot.dotat.org] *Sent:* Monday, 29 May 2017 10:19

Re: [AusNOG] Team Cymru BGP flap Q

Have you thought about asking your peer? - mark On May 29, 2017, at 8:37 AM, Dino Sosic wrote: > > Hi, > > Would anyone have any ideas why this BGP is flapping two or so times a day? > > 1303812: May 28 2017 23:56:29 ACST: %BGP-5-NBR_RESET: Neighbor

Re: [AusNOG] Waymouth St Exchange fire

Another exploding UPS? Quell(e) surprise! - mark On May 22, 2017, at 2:00 PM, Sam Silvester wrote: > > Reports say fire is out and was on Level 2 of the exchange. > > Level 2 according to a Telstra mate has an AXE PSTN switch and a power room. > > On Mon, May 22,