Zaf’s Blog

Well what an interesting reply from Orcon to my enquiry regarding IPv6:

Unfortunately we do not have any plans for IPv6 as of yet, so we have no date for the connection of this. The compatible technology has probably been released as a “prepare for the future” ploy based on the fact that some countries have started trialling and implementing it. As far as I know no New Zealand ISP has current plans to use IPv6 at the moment as we simply dont need it yet. We are going to make the move in time when New Zealand is better prepared for this service and when that happens we will be notifying people- this is probably though the website.
So watch the website and listen out for news that NZ will be trialling IPv6, hopefully later this year though once again, there are no current plans to do this.

Seriously concerned at an ISP so out of touch. This was said today, on the day that APNIC announced they were in stage 3 of their IPv4 depletion.

An interesting day so far at NZNOG 2009, NZDF network, 4 byte ASNs, National Library. Also “attended” a “speed” course in DNSEC over lunch, which basically summed up the previous days DNSSEC tutorial I missed (due to attended IPv6).

Will resolve (*ba* *dum*) to implement DNSSEC on all my domains, even though .co.nz, etc aren’t yet signing.

Well, I’ve just registered for NZNog 2009, which is conveniently located in Auckland this year. Yay for me. Unfortunately they have 4 great looking tutorials, and I can only pick one. I’ve decided on the IPv6 one, purely because it’ll hopefully have the most practical usage. I was seriously considering DNSSEC instead, but we don’t do *that* much DNS stuff.

I have a dead pixel on my LCD (boo hoo!), but its location is at the top right of my screen, its located precisely such that the google search box on the location bar in Firefox, when maximized (Firefox’s usual state), sits right above the ‘e’ in google written in the Google search box. When I read it, it reads Googlé. Thus every time I read it, I think I’ve somehow started my browser in French mode or something

I’d take a screenshot and show you all, but, well….. (For the slow ones out there, think about it for a minute, you’ll get it).

Oh, and whilst I’m posting again, I noticed that google has an ipv6 version. I don’t know how long its been around for, but I’m pretty sure its new within the last 6 months. Nothing special to it, except its ipv6. Hopefully they’ll consider publishing AAAA records for all their domains.

The news is out that Service Pack 3 for Windows XP includes a change in Windows’ UPnP core. This change results in some differences in the UPnP packets it sends. The issue however is that some routers, which have implemented the bare minimums of the UPnP protocol, and have implemented it poorly, crash when receiving these UPnP Packets.

Whilst this is news, why is it news here?

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