www.usenet.net.nz : Index Page

About Usenet New Zealand

The domain usenet.net.nz and the machine cancel.usenet.net.nz are owned by Simon Lyall and are used to host various projects and resources mainly aimed at New Zealand Internet users.

The machine also host things like Simon Lyall's homepage and various DNS records.

Usenet Related

Usenet New Zealand and usenet.net.nz also maintain handle mailings lists, software, and news servers used by the nz.* Usenet hierarchy (which covers New Zealand).

The server is currently open for read-only news access to anyone in New Zealand. Just point your newsreader at news.usenet.net.nz

Newsfeeds are exchanged between the server and several other sites, if you are interested in exchanging a feed please contact Simon Lyall

Hardware and Software

  • Mini-itx case
  • AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1675 Mhz)
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 20GB and 120GB IDE Hard Drives
  • Built in ethernet

  • Debian Linux 3.0 (woody)
  • Exim
  • INN
  • Bind 9
  • Apache
  • Spamassassin
  • Mailman
  • vtund
The Server is kindly hosted by Level 48

Sites Hosted

Network Related

New Zealand Network Operators Contact list
New Zealand domestic Looking Glass (currently offline)

Usenet Related

soc.support.loneliness Homepage

Astronomy

Astronomy Picture of the Day (mirror)
The Nine Planets (mirror)

Misc

Stop Spam (stopspam.net.nz)
Auckland Thursday Night Curry
www.nzl.net (placeholder only)

Personal Homepages

Simon Lyall

Other Services

This machine operates a public timeserver (ntp.usenet.net.nz) that is part of pool.ntp.org , check out their website for more details on how to use it.

It also hosts various mailing lists.

Sponsored by: Ihug © Simon Lyall 2005