I made it back to Auckland from NZNOG this evening. We drove to Wellington and back to save on airfares seeing as there were four of us attending. The drive didn’t seem quite as long as I thought it would. It took about 7 hours from Hamilton to Wellington and vice versa, although the roadworks every 5 kilometres from Cambridge to Bulls were getting very tedious.

Without a doubt the most interesting part of the drive was seeing some activity around the vicinity of Palmerston North where there were trenchers and tractors and some big loops of blue fibre lying on the ground. Very nice to know that progress if finally being made!

The remainder of the conference was also very positive. During the conference dinner on Thursday night we talked to many people about the idea of setting up a NZ routeviews project. There seems to be lots of enthusiasm for it, so hopefully we’ll be able to get something underway promptly.

I also did a very short lightening talk on dhcparpd. The software that we used to spoof ARP replies based on the DHCP lease database at LCA. Its a very nifty little utility and we’re hoping some more people will find some use for it. I’ve written up a page with some information which you can find in the WAND research software repository.