NZOC Monthly Report for April 2006
NZRS Report
NZRS have
produced their monthly report for April 2006. Main points NZOC would
like to highlight with Council are:
System availability for April was 99.98% against the SLA standard of 99.9%
There were no
major incidents affecting availability in April, with all outages
being micro outages totalling 8 minutes and 58 seconds
The scheduled maintenance window was utilised on 30 April, and another scheduled outage took place on 9 April to switch the primary site back to Albany
Performance times for key transactions for April are in the following table:
|
Transaction |
Average Response Times (in seconds) |
|
|
|
As per SLA |
April 2006 |
|
Domain Details Query |
1.5 |
0.05 |
|
Domain Update |
0.4 |
0.43 |
|
Domain Create |
0.6 |
0.27 |
|
Get Message |
0.6 |
0.03 |
|
Whois |
0.5 |
0.16 |
|
UDAI Valid Query |
0.5 |
0.22 |
DNS SLA standards met
Server % Availability
|
|
Jan 06 |
Feb 06 |
Mar 06 |
Apr 06 |
|
NS1 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
|
NS2 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
|
NS3 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
|
NS4 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
|
NS5 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
|
NS6 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
99.92* |
|
NS7 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
*NS6
did not respond to TCP queries for a period of 34 minutes and 15
seconds between 07:33:06 and 08:07:21 on 8 April. NS5 continued to
respond throughout this period so there was no degradation of the
Ultra DNS service.
Response
Times
The figures
are derived from the 'stress testing' of the name servers. 1201 UDP
and 121 TCP transactions are used. Measurements are in
milli-seconds.
|
DNS Server |
Target |
UDP transactions |
TCP transactions |
||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
Nov |
Dec |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
Nov |
Dec |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
|
NS1 |
<5 / <50 |
0.31 |
0.11 |
0.11 |
0.11 |
0.11 |
0.11 |
0.30 |
0.31 |
0.31 |
0.30 |
0.32 |
0.30 |
|
NS2 |
<5 / <50 |
0.36 |
0.11 |
0.11 |
0.11 |
0.11 |
0.11 |
0.32 |
0.36 |
0.34 |
0.33 |
0.33 |
0.33 |
|
NS3 |
<5 / <50 |
0.37 |
0.39 |
0.23 |
0.23 |
0.23 |
0.23 |
1.05 |
1.07 |
1.09 |
1.61 |
1.07 |
1.06 |
- SRS
Zone Pushes
No
issues have been reported with the zone pushes.
These
figures show the average time taken from the point that the first
Primary begins the zone push to the time that the last of the
secondary’s acknowledges that it is up to date.
|
Measurement |
Sept 05 |
Oct 05 |
Nov 05 |
Dec 05 |
Jan 06 |
Feb 06 |
Mar 06 |
Apr 06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Average Time (sec) |
582.66 |
676.14 |
667.16 |
711.82 |
644.21 |
683.94 |
668.72 |
636.25 |
The total number of WHOIS queries decreased from 1,891,000 to 1,738,000. Both public WHOIS Server queries and Registrar WHOIS queries decreased compared to last month.
The level of active .nz domain names increased from 221,433 to 225,475, a net increase of 4,042. The number of domain names registered over the month was again in excess of 6,000 with 6,426 ‘create domains’ transactions.
.nz Policies and Procedures
2.1 Registrar
Compliance
No major
compliance issues were identified during April.
Policy Reviews
There are currently no
reviews being undertaken
2.3 Applications
No applications were received
under the Zone Transfer Policy and no applications for a new Second
Level Domain were received.
Registrar authorisation and connection
There were
five organisations authorised as .nz registrars over April – 123
Internet Limited, Airnet Limited, Pacific Technology Solutions
Limited, OpenHost Limited and Combo Marketing Limited. One
authorised registrar connected to the production system over April –
WebFarm joined their related company FreeParking as an operational
registrar.
Other .nz matters
It
is planned to put out a Request for Information in order to evaluate
options for the provision of legal services for the DNC Office. The
current provider, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, will be asked to
respond.
DRS Planning
Work during April included:
Continued development and testing of the online forms and their integration with the internal database
Content for web site help and information brochure drafted
DNC Office
Recruitment of a Dispute Support Officer (previously Admin Officer) continued and was successful with the appointment of Hilary Pope to the role. Hilary is due to start with the office around the middle of May.
Financial
As at 22 May,
financial reports for the end of 05/06 financial year and for April
06 had not been received. These figures will be provided in the next
report.
Frank March
Chair, NZOC
