[AusNOG] Fibre cut in Sydney?

2018-12-12 Thread Stephen Gillies
Southern Phone are telling me the reason for my NBN HFC internet outage from 8.03am this morning is because of a fibre cut in Sydney. Is this affecting large numbers of NBN customers? Max --- Stephen ‘max’ Gillies Principal Engineer | Caret and Stick +61 409 245 888 Security Ad

Re: [AusNOG] ATO Phone Scammers on SIP Service 61 2 6100 0472

2018-08-02 Thread Stephen Gillies
http://symbionetworks.com/contact/report-a-number This is pretty common from these SIP numbers. I have no idea if the symbio networks folks take any action. Hopefully they track the number back to the SIP account and close it, then mark the credit card used for the SIP account as stolen.

Re: [AusNOG] 1.1.1.1 DNS resolvers

2018-04-04 Thread Stephen Gillies
Infoblox also has a SaaS solution providing DNS security (more than just malware blocking). Stephen ‘max’ Gillies M: +61 409 245 888 On 5/4/18, 6:17 am, "Bill Woodcock" wrote: > On Apr 4, 2018, at 12:56 PM, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote: > > > >> On Apr 4,

Re: [AusNOG] 1.1.1.1 DNS resolvers

2018-04-03 Thread Stephen Gillies
There are a number of DNS servers (commercial products) out there with the extra security integrated for blacklist/threatfeed/behavioural analysis/anti-tunnelling which are I guess more enterprise focused security features, whereas something like quad-1^9 is surely for end users who are happy

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra Mobile sending bad time in Pyrmont or Ultimo NSW

2017-10-30 Thread Stephen Gillies
This is also a general problem for anyone with a Google Pixel. It’s well documented, and is a combination of Google code and how the phone timezone and NTP information gets processed. If there’s a fix us Pixel owners would love to hear about it. It’s not just ultimo, the towers around Le

Re: [AusNOG] HFC

2017-09-11 Thread Stephen Gillies
While I only have a sample size of 2, I’m seeing HFC as fairly reliable. I’m with one of the newer players in the market, on a 100/40 plan. I’m consistently getting 85/35 during the day, and in the evenings it’s more variable, sometimes down to 40/15 but usually around 75/30. My best speedtes