Re: [AusNOG] FOSS Documentation for mixed use-cases?

2023-12-11 Thread James Hodgkinson
mkdocs isn't bad, mdbook from the rust community is pretty great and has some good plugins/options. Both of them can work with Github Actions to publish to a variety of places like s3 buckets or github pages if you want things to be accessible. There's also hugo and zola for static site

Re: [AusNOG] Critical 3CX Windows/Mac hack.

2023-03-29 Thread James Hodgkinson
They've pulled the installers from their website and refer people to the web client...which is not much of a start... On 2023-03-30 14:09 Greg Lipschitz wrote: > Here is a list of commands (or make a shell script) to stop it phoning home > and getting more payload. > > # Disable 3CX

Re: [AusNOG] Getting a network out of a box...

2021-07-30 Thread James Hodgkinson
It’s a special event, so run a red carpet down the hall way and run a cable under that? :) You’ll have power etc for streaming cameras and other gear so one more cable shouldn’t be an issue and the cable can be gaffa taped down and exit somewhere else. Or skip the carpet and just run it

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

2021-01-24 Thread James Hodgkinson
This matches with what I've seen/heard/read - the clicking is the NTD turning off/on power to the DPU, while it tries to check if it's coming online. We had a DOA DPU and have had one since after a storm, in ... under three months. James On 2021-01-25 09:30 Matt Perkins wrote: > There’s

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

2021-01-20 Thread James Hodgkinson
Maybe it's the fact that the NTDs are being powered by residential houses instead of the provider's exchanges, and *very* few people in reality use *good* surge protectors - let alone know they have to replace them after a hit, or identify when they're no longer working? The power's still

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-25 Thread James Hodgkinson
Pretty sure the user stuff gets parsed, like google drive and photos - I'd be very surprised if they messed with the object/disk storage... James On 2020-10-25 14:42 Matthew Scutter wrote: > Going to call a [citation needed] on that, because it reeks of FUD to me. > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at

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

2020-04-13 Thread James Hodgkinson
Not sure why you'd think NBN would make anything better, given all the experience we've seen... ... not to mention you're collapsing the infrastructure so there's more cooks in a smaller kitchen. :) James On 2020-04-13 15:44 Noel Butler wrote: >

Re: [AusNOG] NBN FTTC Install experience

2020-03-05 Thread James Hodgkinson
My one piece of anecdata is that they seemingly cut the line and walked away because it was raining, so we had to get a tech out (a week later) to get it running. James On 2020-03-06 11:25 rich-li...@edit-co.com wrote: > Experiences have varied – about 50% are a simple change-over of no more

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

2019-10-15 Thread James Hodgkinson
I could see it as being a great option, but making it a default would be a support nightmare. "but grandma's printer works from anywhere, why doesn't mine?" 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

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

2019-10-11 Thread James Hodgkinson
Are you really considering blocking customers' access to services, via the connectivity/bandwidth they pay you for, because of the company that provides that service? After so much heated argument over net neutrality, I feel this shouldn't even be a discussion. I'd wager it wasn't even

Re: [AusNOG] .au whois server is missing, assumed Borg'ed.

2019-10-11 Thread James Hodgkinson
It's part of Afilias taking over from AusRegistry... July last year. https://www.domainregistration.com.au/news/2018/0604-au-registry-operator.php On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, at 16:10, Rob Thomas wrote: > You'd think they would have done something like 'Hey. This has > changed. Use this server instead'

Re: [AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

2019-10-03 Thread James Hodgkinson
It's all well and good to hate on pfSense for VOIP issues, and there's workarounds, but is there any equivalent alternative with an accessible user interface for when you just want to make things work, without having to learn yet ANOTHER domain specific language? I can't see my users getting

Re: [AusNOG] Anyone have any ancient Bay 5000/5399's lying around?

2019-09-21 Thread James Hodgkinson
It's probably related to the fact that people being in the one place all the time is hilariously rare, and portable solutions that provide secure MFA don't have all the interoperability and other downsides. There's probably five "desk phones" in my entire organisation, and they're VOIP

Re: [AusNOG] Anyone have any ancient Bay 5000/5399's lying around?

2019-09-19 Thread James Hodgkinson
I know of at least two big banks of 56k modems being used as telemetry data platforms for remote sites ... we had to get custom serial cables made for the interfaces because the things they talk to are ~30 years old and still going strong. James On Fri, 20 Sep 2019, at 09:28, Jamie Lovick

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

2019-08-21 Thread James Hodgkinson
Please stop thinking out loud, this is the quiet carriage. James On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, at 17:17, Paul Wilkins wrote: > Another thought, which is that horizontal mounting is optimal for polar > regions, whereas you minimise precession at equitorial latitudes with > vertical mounting (but only

Re: [AusNOG] Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 - Australian IT Perspective

2019-02-25 Thread James Hodgkinson
They’ve been pretty public about their intent [0], not sure why you’d take “we need to leave Australia” from their statement. I’d agree if they want to avoid ever having to comply then sure, but that’s quite the extreme. James [0]

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

2018-12-13 Thread James Hodgkinson
I can confirm a similar incident not in Sydney. It was later confirmed that the noise was the contributing factor to the disk death. James On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, at 07:32, Robert Hudson wrote: > Not sure. Some of the wordage indicates it may be a separate incident > (albeit at a similar time)...>

Re: [AusNOG] Brisbane fibre cut.

2018-11-30 Thread James Hodgkinson
I'd argue the dynamic and ever-changing nature of peeringdb is what makes it useful. The static and physically vulnerable nature of the nation's networking infrastructure is something best left privately, rather than publicly documented in my opinion. "security through obscurity" isn't something

Re: [AusNOG] Sexual Harassment at AUSNOG Industry Events

2018-10-01 Thread James Hodgkinson
Sometimes it helps to have something to point to when members forget that the correct response to this is "take action" rather than "stop discussion". James On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, at 13:30, Matt Harlum wrote: > Do people really need a Code of Conduct to tell them not to be sex offenders? > > > On

Re: [AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

2018-08-14 Thread James Hodgkinson
Everything I organise is encrypted end-to-end by default, and I'm not even a criminal. It takes effort to *not* do it these days... or SMS, ew. James On Wed, 15 Aug 2018, at 11:10, Bob Purdon wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 11:08, Paul Wilkins > wrote:>> The covering blurb suggests all

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

2018-07-23 Thread James Hodgkinson
I think we all need to step back a bit, let OP do what his auditor feels is right, then thank him on behalf of EFF’s StartTLSEverywhere project... [1] ;) James [1] https://starttls-everywhere.org On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, at 18:21, Mark Foster wrote: > Maybe i've missed something. Email is valid to

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra mobile issues again?

2018-05-24 Thread James Hodgkinson
What, like whatsapp/slack/irc/email/whatever? :) On Thu, 24 May 2018, at 16:09, Nick Stallman wrote: > If you had SMS via VoIP that would be *really* perfect. > > On 24/05/18 15:52, Karen Hargreave wrote: >> Dual sim, VoIP app on the phone, then tell everyone to call the >> number linked to

Re: [AusNOG] fortifiedserver.net ??

2018-04-11 Thread James Hodgkinson
Tell the customer to call their supplier and tell them to make a complaint to THEIR supplier? Sounds like someone's cut-rate piece of junk service is causing troubles. James On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, at 17:29, Ross Wheeler wrote: > > Gentlemen (and ladies!) - I'm not often stuck with no idea which

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

2018-01-07 Thread James Hodgkinson
ings have been removed, altered or obliterated. Intel assumes no >> responsibility that the Product, including if used with altered clock >> frequencies or voltages, will be fit for any particular purpose and >> will not cause any damage or injury.>> >> Option 1 and

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

2018-01-04 Thread James Hodgkinson
Watch them pull out the “this warranty doesn’t actually cover anything, and we don’t say it’ll work in all conditions” card. It’ll be nice to get a free CPU if they do have to, however! :) On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, at 18:32, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote: > If the hardware is under warranty, I'd be expecting

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

2018-01-03 Thread James Hodgkinson
Not to mention hardware fixes on-die :) On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, at 15:03, Scott Howard wrote: > The patches (which exist or will soon exist for all OSes) are only > part of the solution.> > You also need to be looking for BIOS updates from your server/PC > vendors to get the full fixes. Some of

Re: [AusNOG] NBN/ACMA fines etc

2017-12-21 Thread James Hodgkinson
If the customer got an email like that, I'd wager it's Telstra trying to "fire the customer" ... sometimes it's worth losing a small profit to avoid large support costs ;) James On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, at 09:47, paul+aus...@oxygennetworks.com.au wrote: > Jeeze Mike, next thing you will want Toll

Re: [AusNOG] Bigpond Mail Contacts

2017-12-10 Thread James Hodgkinson
Similar to this, we're seeing anyone that uses Outlook for iOS getting blocked as spam when sent through o365 to @bigpond.com addresses - anyone seen this before/recently? James On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, at 11:43, Brad King wrote: > Hi Shane, > > Ill send you an email off-list. > > Rgs, > > Brad >

Re: [AusNOG] Something else to be worried about

2017-06-24 Thread James Hodgkinson
"I spent a million bucks buying things to sign off on a list and still allowed an uncontrolled device to send SMB via VPN to my network". Doesn't matter how much shiny vendor-tin you buy, process failure's going to get you every time. James On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, at 13:58, Jason Ross wrote: >